Can MacBook Neo A18 Pro 8GB run DeepSeek-R1?

Apple · 8 GB LPDDR5X · 60 GB/s bandwidth · DeepSeek · 684.5B (active 37B) · MoE · model ctx up to 128K

Fit & speed by quant and context

Fits = weights + KV(ctx) + 0.5 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM. Measured anchors are context-agnostic; the fit verdict is recomputed per context. A missing tok/s means the model is far beyond this card (offload-only territory).

VRAM breakdown at 8K context

Other GPUs that run DeepSeek-R1

No catalog GPU fully fits DeepSeek-R1 at Q4/8K — see the model page for offload estimates. model page

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Other models for the MacBook Neo A18 Pro 8GB

• MiniCPM5-1B — ≈70.0 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3.5-2B — ≈37.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct — ≈23.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• Nanbeige4.2-3B — ≈19.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 — ≈18.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16 — ≈18.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 — ≈18.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-4-E2B-it — ≈14.8 tok/s Q4 est.

All models on the MacBook Neo A18 Pro 8GB →