Written by Jakub Rusinowski · Last updated July 10, 2026
Yes — the DeepSeek R1 family runs on the Apple M5.
| VRAM | 32 GB unified memory |
| Memory Bandwidth | 153 GB/s |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B | Q4_K_M · 19.5 GB · ~8 tok/s (est.) |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B | Q4_K_M · 9.2 GB · ~17 tok/s (est.) |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B | Q4_K_M · 5.8 GB · ~26 tok/s (est.) |
Yes — the DeepSeek R1 family runs on the Apple M5.
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B at Q4_K_M quantization (19.5 GB), estimated ~8 tokens/sec.
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