Can I run MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B on a Mac with 16 GB?

Yes

Its published weights (3.11 GB) fit in the 10.7 GB a Mac with 16 GB can use, with room for ≈ 256K tokens of context.

Full analysis of MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B Everything that runs on Mac with 16 GB Get the weights on Hugging Face

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Files and context on Mac with 16 GB

Each file of MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B (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)
As published	3.11 GB	Fits	256K	256K
F16openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	2.02 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q8_0openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	1.08 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q6_Kopenbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	838 MB	Fits	256K	256K
Q5_1openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	785 MB	Fits	256K	256K
Q5_K_Mopenbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	752 MB	Fits	256K	256K
Q5_0openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	738 MB	Fits	256K	256K
Q5_K_Sopenbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	738 MB	Fits	256K	256K
Q4_1openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	691 MB	Fits	256K	256K
Q4_K_Mopenbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	672 MB	Fits	256K	256K
IQ4_NLopenbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	659 MB	Fits	256K	256K
Q4_K_Sopenbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	648 MB	Fits	256K	256K
Q4_0openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	644 MB	Fits	256K	256K
IQ4_XSopenbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	639 MB	Fits	256K	256K
IQ3_Mopenbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	563 MB	Fits	256K	256K
IQ3_XSopenbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	552 MB	Fits	256K	256K
dspark-MiniCPM-V-4_7-1B-F16openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B-gguf	438 MB	Fits	256K	256K

MiniCPM-V-4.7-1B 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.