Apple M1 vs Apple M1 Pro

Head-to-head AI inference comparison across 109 popular models. Each model is graded against both cards using its highest-quality quantization that still fits in VRAM. Bigger grade and faster tokens-per-second wins.

Spec
  • VRAM
  • Architecture
  • Vendor
  • MSRP
  • Models running
  • Wins (grade)
Apple M1
  • 16GB
  • m1
  • apple
  • 108 of 109
  • 0 models
Apple M1 Pro
  • 32GB
  • m1
  • apple
  • 109 of 109
  • 10 models

Where Apple M1 pulls ahead

  • No standout wins.

Language Models47 models

D
Gemma 3 27B
27B · Google
42
S
D
Qwen 2.5 32B
32B · Alibaba
42
A
C
Mistral Small 22B
22B · Mistral AI
42
S
F
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
70B · Meta
D
A
48
Phi-4
14B · Microsoft
78
S
A
48
Qwen 2.5 14B
14B · Alibaba
78
S
S
48
Gemma 3 12B
12B · Google
78
S
S
48
Mistral Nemo 12B
12B · Mistral AI
78
S
S
48
Solar 10.7B
10.7B · Upstage
78
S
S
78
Falcon 3 10B
10B · TII
114
S
S
78
Gemma 2 9B Instruct
9.2B · Google
114
S
S
78
Yi 1.5 9B Chat
9B · 01.AI
114
S
S
78
DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B
8B · DeepSeek
114
S
S
78
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8B · Meta
114
S
S
78
Granite 3.3 8B
8B · IBM
114
S
S
78
EXAONE 3.5 7.8B
7.8B · LG AI
114
S
S
78
InternLM 2.5 7B
7.7B · Shanghai AI Lab
114
S
S
78
Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct
7.6B · Alibaba
114
S
S
78
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3
7.3B · Mistral AI
114
S
S
78
Falcon 3 7B
7B · TII
114
S
S
78
OLMo 2 7B
7B · Allen AI
114
S
S
78
OpenChat 3.5 7B
7B · OpenChat
114
S
S
78
Yi 1.5 6B Chat
6B · 01.AI
114
S
S
114
Gemma 3 4B
4B · Google
168
S
S
114
Nemotron Mini 4B
4B · NVIDIA
168
S
S
114
Danube 3 4B
4B · H2O.ai
168
S
S
114
Phi-3.5 Mini 3.8B
3.8B · Microsoft
168
S
S
114
Phi-4 Mini 3.8B
3.8B · Microsoft
168
S
S
114
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
3.2B · Meta
168
S
S
114
Qwen 2.5 3B
3B · Alibaba
168
S
S
114
Falcon 3 3B
3B · TII
168
S
S
114
StableLM Zephyr 3B
3B · Stability AI
168
S
S
114
Rocket 3B
3B · Pansophic
168
S
S
114
Gemma 2 2B
2.6B · Google
168
S
S
114
EXAONE 3.5 2.4B
2.4B · LG AI
168
S
S
156
Granite 3.3 2B
2B · IBM
216
S
S
156
SmolLM2 1.7B
1.7B · HuggingFace
216
S
S
156
Qwen 2.5 1.5B
1.5B · Alibaba
216
S
S
156
DeepSeek R1 Distill 1.5B
1.5B · DeepSeek
216
S
S
156
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
1.24B · Meta
216
S
S
156
TinyLlama 1.1B
1.1B · TinyLlama
216
S
S
156
Gemma 3 1B
1B · Google
216
S
S
156
Falcon 3 1B
1B · TII
216
S
S
156
Qwen 2.5 0.5B
0.5B · Alibaba
216
S
S
156
Danube 3 500M
0.5B · H2O.ai
216
S
S
156
SmolLM2 360M
0.36B · HuggingFace
216
S
S
156
SmolLM2 135M
0.135B · HuggingFace
216
S

Code Models16 models

Multimodal & Vision6 models

Image Generation9 models

Speech9 models

Text-to-Speech14 models

Embeddings5 models

Rerankers2 models