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Can I run Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncensored-Heretic-NEO-IMATRIX-MAX-MTP-GGUF on a Mac with 16 GB?

Yes, just

Its Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-plusIQ-TOOLS-NEO-MAX-MTP-Q6_K file (8.76 GB) fits in the 10.7 GB a Mac with 16 GB can use, with room for ≈ 55K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncensored-Heretic-NEO-IMATRIX-MAX-MTP-GGUF Everything that runs on Mac with 16 GB Get the Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-plusIQ-TOOLS-NEO-MAX-MTP-Q6_K file on Hugging Face
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Files and context on Mac with 16 GB

Each file of Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncensored-Heretic-NEO-IMATRIX-MAX-MTP-GGUF (and of GGUF versions the site has analyzed), and how much context fits next to it, with the context cache in 16-bit or 8-bit.

FileSizeOn Mac with 16 GB Context (16-bit)Context (8-bit)
BF1618.4 GBDoesn't fit——
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-plusIQ-TOOLS-NEO-MAX-MTP-Q8_010.7 GBDoesn't fit——
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-plusIQ-NEO-MAX-MTP-Q8_010.7 GBDoesn't fit——
Q8_010.7 GBDoesn't fit——
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-NEO-MAX-Q8_010.5 GBDoesn't fit4K8K
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-plusIQ-TOOLS-NEO-MAX-MTP-Q6_K8.76 GBTight55K111K
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-plusIQ-NEO-MAX-MTP-Q6_K8.76 GBTight55K111K
Q6_K8.76 GBTight55K111K
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-NEO-MAX-Q6_K8.56 GBTight61K123K
Q5_K_M7.84 GBFits83K165K
Q5_K_S7.67 GBFits88K175K
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-NEO-MAX-Q5_K_M7.67 GBFits88K176K
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-NEO-MAX-Q5_K_S7.51 GBFits93K185K
Q4_K_M6.98 GBFits108K217K
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-NEO-MAX-Q4_K_M6.83 GBFits113K226K
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-NEO-MAX-MTP-IQ4_NL6.76 GBFits115K230K
Q4_K_S6.69 GBFits117K234K
IQ4_NL6.62 GBFits119K238K
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-NEO-MAX-Q4_K_S6.55 GBFits121K242K
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-NEO-MAX-MTP-IQ4_XS6.53 GBFits122K244K
IQ4_XS6.40 GBFits126K251K
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-NEO-MAX-MTP-IQ3_M5.72 GBFits146K256K
IQ3_M5.62 GBFits149K256K
Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncnr-Heretic-NEO-MAX-MTP-IQ2_M4.94 GBFits169K256K
IQ2_M4.94 GBFits169K256K

Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncensored-Heretic-NEO-IMATRIX-MAX-MTP-GGUF on other hardware

Popular models that run on Mac with 16 GB

Assumes 67% of the Mac's memory is usable (macOS's default limit for the GPU; it can be raised) and at least 4K tokens of context for one conversation, with the context cache in 16-bit unless noted. Fits leaves at least 20% of that memory for context; Tight leaves less.