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Mac Mini M4

16 GB$599~12.0 GB usable

Type: Unified memory (SoC)
Provider: Apple ★
Unified memory: 16 GB
Price: $599

Usable for models (est.): 12.0 GB · Price per GB: $37

Popular models that run here

The largest models this device holds fully in memory, each at its best-fitting quantization.

Every model: does it fit?

30 of 41 models run fully in memory, 5 more with partial offload. Estimated at a 4096-token context. How fit is calculated

Model	Params	Best fit	Memory needed (est.)	Fit
DeepSeek-V4-Pro (MoE)	1600B	—	~480.0 GB	✕ Does not fit
DeepSeek-V3 (MoE)	671B	—	~201.3 GB	✕ Does not fit
Llama 3.1 405B	405B	—	~121.5 GB	✕ Does not fit
DeepSeek-V4-Flash (MoE)	284B	—	~85.2 GB	✕ Does not fit
Qwen 3 235B-A22B (MoE)	235B	—	~70.5 GB	✕ Does not fit
Mistral Large 2 (MoE)	141B	—	~42.3 GB	✕ Does not fit
Qwen 2.5 72B	72B	—	~21.6 GB	◐ Partial offload
Llama 3 70B	70.6B	—	~21.2 GB	◐ Partial offload
Llama 3.3 70B	70.6B	—	~21.2 GB	◐ Partial offload
Llama 3.1 70B	70B	—	~21.0 GB	◐ Partial offload
Llama 2 70B	70B	—	~21.0 GB	◐ Partial offload
Falcon 40B	40B	INT2	~12.0 GB	✓ Runs
Qwen 2.5 32B	32B	INT2	~9.6 GB	✓ Runs
Qwen 3 32B	32B	INT2	~9.6 GB	✓ Runs
OLMo 3 32B	32B	INT2	~9.6 GB	✓ Runs
Gemma 4 31B	31B	INT2	~9.3 GB	✓ Runs
Qwen 3 30B-A3B (MoE)	30B	INT2	~9.0 GB	✓ Runs
Gemma 3 27B	27B	INT2	~8.1 GB	✓ Runs
Phi-4	14B	FP4	~8.4 GB	✓ Runs
Llama 2 13B	13B	FP4	~7.8 GB	✓ Runs
OLMo 2 13B	13B	FP4	~7.8 GB	✓ Runs
Mistral Nemo 12B	12B	FP4	~7.2 GB	✓ Runs
Gemma 3 12B	12B	FP4	~7.2 GB	✓ Runs
Gemma 2 9B	9B	FP8	~10.8 GB	✓ Runs
Llama 3 8B	8B	FP8	~9.6 GB	✓ Runs
Llama 3.1 8B	8B	FP8	~9.6 GB	✓ Runs
Qwen 3 8B	8B	FP8	~9.6 GB	✓ Runs
Llama 3.3 8B	8B	FP8	~9.6 GB	✓ Runs
Llama 2 7B	7B	FP8	~8.4 GB	✓ Runs
Mistral 7B	7B	FP8	~8.4 GB	✓ Runs
Qwen 2.5 7B	7B	FP8	~8.4 GB	✓ Runs
Falcon 7B	7B	FP8	~8.4 GB	✓ Runs
OLMo 2 7B	7B	FP8	~8.4 GB	✓ Runs
OLMo-7B	7B	FP8	~8.4 GB	✓ Runs
Mistral Small 3 7B	7B	FP8	~8.4 GB	✓ Runs
Gemma 3 4B	4B	FP16	~9.6 GB	✓ Runs
Phi-3	3.8B	FP16	~9.1 GB	✓ Runs
Phi-3-mini-128K	3.8B	FP16	~9.1 GB	✓ Runs
Llama 3.2 3B	3B	FP16	~7.2 GB	✓ Runs
Llama 3.2 1B	1B	FP32	~4.8 GB	✓ Runs
Gemma 3 1B	1B	FP32	~4.8 GB	✓ Runs

Measured throughput

Model	Quantization	Tokens/sec (measured)
Llama 3.2 7B	Q4_K_M	22

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