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Compatibility Report

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B on Apple M1 (16GB Unified)

M1 (16GB Unified) cannot run Qwen3.5-122B-A10B. 16 GB VRAM is insufficient at any quantization level.

Model Size

122B

Device VRAM

16 GB

Bandwidth

68.25 GB/s

Quantization

Q3_K_M

Benchmarks

Performance by Quantization

OwnRig currently has one published compatibility entry for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B on Apple M1 (16GB Unified) at Q3_K_M. This pairing has limitations β€” check the rating and notes below.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q3_K_Mβ€“β€“βœ— OffloadNot viableestimated

Notes

Q3_K_M

Model exceeds m1-16gb effective VRAM capacity.

About Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B (122B) is a chat, coding, ai coding, reasoning, multi-purpose model. Mixture-of-Experts with 122B total parameters but only 10B active per token. Runs on far less VRAM than the total size suggests. Qwen's best open-weight MoE in the medium tier; excels at knowledge-heavy and vision tasks. Native multimodal. Apache 2.0 licensed.

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About Apple M1 (16GB Unified)

Apple M1 (16GB Unified) has 16 GB at 68.25 GB/s. Available in MacBook Air 13" (2020), MacBook Pro 13" (2020).

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Estimate method: Estimated: model exceeds m1-16gb VRAM capacity. Reference hardware source: github.com (2026-04-18)

Performance varies by driver version, inference engine, quantization method, context length, and system configuration. Figures shown are estimates based on community benchmarks and may not reflect your exact setup. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners. OwnRig is independent and not affiliated with any hardware or AI model provider.