Can I run Qwen3.8-2B-Distill-GGUF on a Mac with 32 GB?

Yes

Its BF16 file (3.90 GB) fits in the 21.3 GB a Mac with 32 GB can use, with room for ≈ 256K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Qwen3.8-2B-Distill-GGUF Everything that runs on Mac with 32 GB Get the BF16 file on Hugging Face

ollama run hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-2B-Distill-GGUF:BF16

Files and context on Mac with 32 GB

Each file of Qwen3.8-2B-Distill-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 32 GB	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
BF16	3.90 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q8_0	2.08 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q6_K	1.61 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q5_K_M	1.45 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q4_K_M	1.31 GB	Fits	256K	256K

Qwen3.8-2B-Distill-GGUF on other hardware

Popular models that run on Mac with 32 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.