Can I run MiniCPM5-2B on a Mac with 128 GB?

Yes

Its published weights (5.03 GB) fit in the 96.0 GB a Mac with 128 GB can use, with room for ≈ 128K tokens of context.

Full analysis of MiniCPM5-2B Everything that runs on Mac with 128 GB Get the weights on Hugging Face

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Files and context on Mac with 128 GB

Each file of MiniCPM5-2B (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 128 GB	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
As published	5.03 GB	Fits	128K	128K
F16openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B-GGUF	5.04 GB	Fits	128K	128K
Q8_0openbmb/MiniCPM5-2B-GGUF	2.68 GB	Fits	128K	128K
Q4_K_Mopenbmb/MiniCPM5-2B-GGUF	1.56 GB	Fits	128K	128K

MiniCPM5-2B on other hardware

Popular models that run on Mac with 128 GB

Assumes 75% 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.