Can I run Qwen3.5-9B-Base on a Mac with 32 GB?

Yes, just

Its published weights (19.3 GB) fit in the 21.3 GB a Mac with 32 GB can use, with room for ≈ 59K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Qwen3.5-9B-Base Everything that runs on Mac with 32 GB Get the weights on Hugging Face

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Files and context on Mac with 32 GB

Each file of Qwen3.5-9B-Base (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 32 GB	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
As published	19.3 GB	Tight	59K	118K
4-bit (estimate)	5.43 GB	Fits	256K	256K

Qwen3.5-9B-Base on other hardware

NVIDIA H100Yes
RTX 5090Yes
RTX 4090Yes, just
RTX 3090Yes, just
RTX 5060 Ti 16 GBProbably, at 4-bit
RTX 3060 12 GBProbably, at 4-bit
RTX 4060Probably, at 4-bit
Mac with 32 GBYes, just
Mac with 64 GBYes
Mac with 128 GBYes

Popular models that run on Mac with 32 GB

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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.