Can I run Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill-MTP-APEX-I-MiniPlus-V2.1-Abliterated-GGUF on a Mac with 24 GB?

Yes, just

Its Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill.APEX-I-MiniPlus-V2.1-Abliterated file (14.7 GB) fits in the 16.0 GB a Mac with 24 GB can use, with room for ≈ 61K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill-MTP-APEX-I-MiniPlus-V2.1-Abliterated-GGUF Everything that runs on Mac with 24 GB Get the Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill.APEX-I-MiniPlus-V2.1-Abliterated file on Hugging Face

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Files and context on Mac with 24 GB

Each file of Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill-MTP-APEX-I-MiniPlus-V2.1-Abliterated-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.

File	Size	On Mac with 24 GB	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill.APEX-I-MiniPlus-V2.1-Abliterated	14.7 GB	Tight	61K	122K

Qwen3.8-35B-A3B-Distill-MTP-APEX-I-MiniPlus-V2.1-Abliterated-GGUF on other hardware

Popular models that run on Mac with 24 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.