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Can the Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max run LLaVA 1.6 Mistral 7B?

23Basic quality (D) · 23 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At Q3_K_M it needs about 5.4 GB of 7.2 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 16.5 tok/s.

Best quant
Q3_K_M
Generation speed
16.5 tok/s
Prompt processing
254 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
4.0 s
Largest safe context
21K

Download LLaVA 1.6 Mistral 7B

On a phone, tablet or other mobile device you install a chat app and get the model file through it, so there are no commands to copy.

On iPhone or iPad

No mobile app in the App Store runs LLaVA 1.6 Mistral 7B right now: mobile apps need a GGUF version, and none is published. Mobile apps · models that run on mobile devices.

Files and commands for a computer

Recommended for the Apple iPhone 17 Pro / 17 Pro Max: Q3_K_M. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run llava:7b-v1.6-mistral-q3_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from LLaVA, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/llava-hf/llava-v1.6-mistral-7b-hf (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 23Basic quality (D) · 23 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q3_K_M, 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 Runs well
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.10.6 / 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.25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.9.6 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.15.0 / 15
Match score60.2 / 100

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

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

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality File to pick in the app
Q2_K 4.7 GB 7.2 GB 21.0 tok/s Runs well 19Basic quality (D) · 19 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 59/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. —
Q3_K_M 5.4 GB 7.2 GB 16.5 tok/s Runs well 23Basic quality (D) · 23 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. —
Q4_K_M 6.3 GB 7.2 GB 12.8 tok/s Runs welltight fit 26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 59/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. —
Q5_K_M 7.0 GB 7.2 GB 10.6 tok/s Runs welltight fit 27Basic quality (D) · 27 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. —
Q6_K 7.9 GB 7.2 GB — Won't runover the app memory limit 27Basic quality (D) · 27 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 3/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. —
Q8_0 9.7 GB 7.2 GB — Won't runover the app memory limit 28Basic quality (D) · 28 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 3/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. —
F16 16.8 GB 7.2 GB — Won't runover the app memory limit 28Basic quality (D) · 28 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 3/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. —

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Quick answers

How much memory does LLaVA 1.6 Mistral 7B need on the iPhone 17 Pro?

At Q3_K_M it needs about 5.4 GB. The iPhone 17 Pro has 7.2 GB usable.

How fast is LLaVA 1.6 Mistral 7B on the iPhone 17 Pro?

About 16.5 tok/s at Q3_K_M, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of LLaVA 1.6 Mistral 7B should I use on the iPhone 17 Pro?

Q3_K_M. Of the versions that fit, it is the one that runs best; when two run equally well, the check prefers the higher-rated one.

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.

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