Can I run Ornith-1.0-35B on a Mac with 64 GB?

Yes, with a GGUF version

The published weights are too big, but the Q8_0 file from ornith-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B-GGUF (36.9 GB) fits, with room for ≈ 256K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Ornith-1.0-35B Everything that runs on Mac with 64 GB Get the Q8_0 file on Hugging Face

ollama run hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B-GGUF:Q8_0

Files and context on Mac with 64 GB

Each file of Ornith-1.0-35B (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 64 GB	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
As published	70.2 GB	Doesn't fit	—	—
BF16ornith-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B-GGUF	69.4 GB	Doesn't fit	—	—
Q8_0ornith-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B-GGUF	36.9 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q6_Kornith-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B-GGUF	28.5 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q5_K_Mornith-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B-GGUF	24.7 GB	Fits	256K	256K
Q4_K_Mornith-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B-GGUF	21.2 GB	Fits	256K	256K

Ornith-1.0-35B on other hardware

Popular models that run on Mac with 64 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.