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Can I run Qwen3-14B on a Mac with 16 GB?

Yes, with a GGUF version

The published weights are too big, but the Q4_K_M file from Qwen/Qwen3-14B-GGUF (9.00 GB) fits, with room for ≈ 10K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Qwen3-14B Everything that runs on Mac with 16 GB Get the Q4_K_M file on Hugging Face
ollama run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen3-14B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Files and context on Mac with 16 GB

Each file of Qwen3-14B (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)
As published29.5 GBDoesn't fit——
Q8_0Qwen/Qwen3-14B-GGUF15.7 GBDoesn't fit——
Q6_KQwen/Qwen3-14B-GGUF12.1 GBDoesn't fit——
Q5_K_MQwen/Qwen3-14B-GGUF10.5 GBDoesn't fit9282K
Q5_0Qwen/Qwen3-14B-GGUF10.3 GBDoesn't fit2K5K
Q4_K_MQwen/Qwen3-14B-GGUF9.00 GBTight10K20K

Qwen3-14B 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.