Can I run Winnow-12B on a Mac with 24 GB?

Yes

Its Q8_0 file (12.7 GB) fits in the 16.0 GB a Mac with 24 GB can use, with room for ≈ 20K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Winnow-12B Everything that runs on Mac with 24 GB Get the Q8_0 file on Hugging Face

ollama run hf.co/EldanRing/Winnow-12B:Q8_0

Files and context on Mac with 24 GB

Each file of Winnow-12B (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 24 GB	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
Winnow-12B-BF16	23.8 GB	Doesn't fit	—	—
Q8_0	12.7 GB	Fits	20K	45K
Winnow-12B-NVFP4	8.16 GB	Fits	53K	112K

Winnow-12B on other hardware

NVIDIA H100Yes
RTX 5090Yes, just
RTX 4090Yes
RTX 3090Yes
RTX 5060 Ti 16 GBYes, just
RTX 3060 12 GBYes
RTX 4060No
Mac with 24 GBYes
Mac with 32 GBYes
Mac with 64 GBYes
Mac with 128 GBYes

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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.