Can the Apple A18 Pro (8 GB) run Qwen-Image?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. Qwen-Image needs about 13.3 GB even at FP8; the Apple A18 Pro (8 GB) has 5.4 GB usable.

Download Qwen-Image

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image (opens in a new tab)

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Official repo · GitHub

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

github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen-Image

Links checked 7 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at FP8, 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 run: How well it runs on the Apple A18 Pro (8 GB): 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.	11.6 / 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.	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	11.6 / 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 A18 Pro (8 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Memory mode	Runs	Quality	Download
`FP16`	20.4 GB	5.4 GB	—	—	Won't run	88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`FP8`	13.3 GB	5.4 GB	—	—	Won't run	86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Hardware that can run it

88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell FP16 · 66 s · Slow
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 FP8 · 71 s · Slow (encoder in RAM)
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 FP8 · 1.8 min · Slow (CPU offload)
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX FP8 · 2.0 min · Slow (CPU offload)
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper (96 GB GPU) FP16 · 63 s · Slow
88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA H100 80GB SXM FP16 · 63 s · Slow

Models that do run on the Apple A18 Pro (8 GB)

72Great quality (A) · 72 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 4B Q4 GGUF · 36 s
39Basic quality (D) · 39 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. SDXL Turbo FP8 · 3.9 s
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX 3 Image Klein Q8 GGUF · 4.1 min
82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Z-Image Turbo FP8 · 84 s
52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. SDXL-Lightning (4-step) FP8 · 19 s

Quick answers

How much memory does Qwen-Image need on the A18 Pro 8GB?

Even at FP8 it needs about 13.3 GB; the A18 Pro 8GB has 5.4 GB usable.

What can the A18 Pro 8GB run instead?

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

What hardware can run Qwen-Image?

NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB, RTX 5090 32GB and RTX 4090 24GB 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.