Can I run Clover-35B-A3B-Preview on a Mac with 48 GB?

Yes, with a GGUF version

The published weights are too big, but the Q4_K_M file from Diffuspace/Clover-35B-A3B-Preview-GGUF (23.0 GB) fits, with room for ≈ 128K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Clover-35B-A3B-Preview Everything that runs on Mac with 48 GB Get the Q4_K_M file on Hugging Face

ollama run hf.co/Diffuspace/Clover-35B-A3B-Preview-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Files and context on Mac with 48 GB

Each file of Clover-35B-A3B-Preview (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.

File	Size	On Mac with 48 GB	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
As published	69.3 GB	Doesn't fit	—	—
Q8_0Diffuspace/Clover-35B-A3B-Preview-GGUF	37.9 GB	Doesn't fit	—	—
Q4_K_MDiffuspace/Clover-35B-A3B-Preview-GGUF	23.0 GB	Fits	128K	128K
Q4_0Diffuspace/Clover-35B-A3B-Preview-GGUF	19.6 GB	Fits	128K	128K

Clover-35B-A3B-Preview on other hardware

Popular models that run on Mac with 48 GB

Assumes 75% 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.