Yi 34B Chat needs ~20.4 GB VRAM. MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB has 17.3 GB. With Q2_K quantization, expect ~21 tok/s.
Operating mode
Interactive favors responsiveness, while light API and scale-out lean harder on serving readiness. The fit stays the same, but the recommendation lens changes.
Current mode
Balanced
Balanced for general local use. Keeps the ranking neutral across personal and serving workflows.
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10.6 GB over capacity — needs offload or smaller quantization
Fit status
Too heavy
Decode
10.7 tok/s
TTFT
18155 ms
Safe context
4K
Memory
27.9 GB / 17.3 GB
Offload
40%
It fits through host-memory offload, and offload is the main reason performance drops.
CPU or host-memory offload is active
About 20% of the working set spills out of accelerator memory, which usually hurts latency and sustained decode throughput.
Very little memory headroom
You can run the model, but there is not much room left for longer context, bigger batches, extra apps, or future model updates.
Shared-memory contention still exists
The OS, browser, and inference runtime all compete for the same physical memory pool, so real-world headroom is less forgiving than raw capacity suggests.
Remove offload with more accelerator memory
Prioritize a GPU or unified-memory tier that fits the whole model natively. Removing offload usually helps more than small compute gains.
Buy headroom, not only minimum fit
A slightly larger memory tier gives you safer context growth and makes the recommendation more future-proof.
Increase host RAM if you keep offloading
This setup may need roughly 2.0 GB of extra host RAM just for the offloaded portion, before OS and other tools.
| Workload | Grade | Fit | Decode | TTFT | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat | F | Too heavy | 11.5 tok/s | 9174 ms | 4K |
| Coding | F | Too heavy | 10.7 tok/s | 18155 ms | 4K |
| Agentic Coding | F | Too heavy | 9.3 tok/s | 30260 ms | 4K |
| Reasoning | F | Too heavy | 10.7 tok/s | 21456 ms | 4K |
| RAG | F | Too heavy | 9.3 tok/s | 37825 ms | 4K |
How Yi 34B Chat (34B params) fits at each quantization level on MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB (17.3 GB usable).
| Quant | Bits | VRAM | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Q2_K | 2 | 13.3 GB | Low | F0 |
Q3_K_S | 3 | 16.7 GB | Low | F0 |
NVFP4 | 4 | 19.0 GB | Medium | F0 |
Q4_K_M | 4 | 20.7 GB | Medium | F0 |
Q5_K_M | 5 | 24.5 GB | High | F0 |
Q6_K | 6 | 27.9 GB | High | F0 |
Q8_0 | 8 | 36.4 GB | Very High | F0 |
F16 | 16 | 69.7 GB | Maximum | F0 |
Copy-paste commands to run Yi 34B Chat on your machine.
Run
lms load Yi-34B-Chat && lms server startOpções de upgrade
Makes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Removes host-memory offload, which is usually the single biggest latency and throughput win.
~$1,099 MSRP
Makes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Removes host-memory offload, which is usually the single biggest latency and throughput win.
~$1,599 MSRP
Makes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Adds memory headroom for longer context windows and future model growth.
~$1,999 MSRP
Yes, MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB can run Yi 34B Chat at Q2_K quantization (Very compromised (needs ~2 GB host RAM)). The recommended Q4_K_M requires 27.9 GB which exceeds available memory, but at Q2_K it needs only 20.4 GB. Expected decode speed: 20.5 tok/s.
Yi 34B Chat (34B parameters) requires approximately 27.9 GB at Q4_K_M quantization. On MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB, it fits at Q2_K using 20.4 GB.
The recommended quantization is Q4_K_M, but on MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB the best fitting quantization is Q2_K, which uses 20.4 GB.
On MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB, Yi 34B Chat achieves approximately 20.5 tokens per second decode speed with a time-to-first-token of 9466ms using Q2_K quantization.
For coding workloads, Yi 34B Chat on MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB receives a F grade with 10.7 tok/s and 4K context.
On MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB, Yi 34B Chat can safely use up to 4K tokens of context at Q2_K quantization. The model's official context limit is 200K, but available memory constrains the safe maximum.
Remove offload with more accelerator memory. Prioritize a GPU or unified-memory tier that fits the whole model natively. Removing offload usually helps more than small compute gains.
Not always. MacBook Pro M4 Pro 24GB can often fit larger models thanks to unified memory, but a discrete GPU with dedicated high-bandwidth VRAM may still decode faster once the model fits. For this combination, the important distinction is capacity versus sustained throughput.
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