Kandinsky 3 on Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max

Can the Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max run Kandinsky 3?

No, it doesn’t fit (over the app memory limit)

No. Kandinsky 3 needs about 4.2 GB even at FP16; the Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max has 7.2 GB usable.

Download Kandinsky 3

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Sber AI, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers, Diffusers or ComfyUI.

huggingface.co/kandinsky-community/kandinsky-3 (opens in a new tab)

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Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Sber AI. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/ai-forever/Kandinsky-3 (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/ai-forever/Kandinsky-3

Links checked 14 hours ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 48Fair quality (C) · 48 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at FP16, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Won't runover the app memory limit: How well it runs on the Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max: speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	6.5 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.	0.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	0.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	0.0 / 15
Match score	6.5 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

It doesn’t fit, so only a reduced share of the quality points counts and fit, speed and memory use score zero.

Every precision on the Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Memory mode	Runs	Quality	Download
`FP16`	4.2 GB	7.2 GB	—	—	Won't runover the app memory limit	48Fair quality (C) · 48 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Hardware that can run it

48Fair quality (C) · 48 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 FP16 · 7.5 s · Runs great
48Fair quality (C) · 48 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER FP16 · 18 s · Runs well (encoder in RAM)
48Fair quality (C) · 48 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell FP16 · 6.6 s · Runs great
48Fair quality (C) · 48 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT FP16 · 13 s · Runs great (encoder in RAM)
48Fair quality (C) · 48 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 FP16 · 13 s · Runs great (encoder in RAM)
48Fair quality (C) · 48 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER FP16 · 13 s · Runs great (encoder in RAM)

Models that do run on the Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max

76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 4B FP8 · 24 s
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX 3 Image Klein Q4 GGUF · 3.0 min
52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. SDXL-Lightning (4-step) FP8 · 16 s
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Z-Image Turbo Q4 GGUF · 80 s
56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. DreamShaper XL v2 Turbo FP8 · 30 s

Quick answers

How much memory does Kandinsky 3 need on the iPhone 17 Pro?

Even at FP16 it needs about 4.2 GB; the iPhone 17 Pro has 7.2 GB usable.

What can the iPhone 17 Pro run instead?

FLUX.2 [klein] 4B, FLUX 3 Image Klein and SDXL-Lightning (4-step) run best on it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

What hardware can run Kandinsky 3?

RTX 5090 32GB, RTX 4070 SUPER 12GB and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB run it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.