Can I run Qwen3.8-4B-Distill-GGUF on a Mac with 16 GB?

Yes, just

Its BF16 file (8.67 GB) fits in the 10.7 GB a Mac with 16 GB can use, with room for ≈ 58K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Qwen3.8-4B-Distill-GGUF Everything that runs on Mac with 16 GB Get the BF16 file on Hugging Face

ollama run hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-4B-Distill-GGUF:BF16

Files and context on Mac with 16 GB

Each file of Qwen3.8-4B-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 16 GB	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
BF16	8.67 GB	Tight	58K	116K
Q8_0	4.61 GB	Fits	179K	256K
Q6_K	3.56 GB	Fits	210K	256K
Q5_K_M	3.16 GB	Fits	222K	256K
Q4_K_M	2.78 GB	Fits	233K	256K

Qwen3.8-4B-Distill-GGUF 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.