Can I run Ornith-1.0-9B-GGUF on a Mac with 16 GB?

Yes, just

Its Q8_0 file (9.53 GB) fits in the 10.7 GB a Mac with 16 GB can use, with room for ≈ 32K tokens of context.

Full analysis of Ornith-1.0-9B-GGUF Everything that runs on Mac with 16 GB Get the Q8_0 file on Hugging Face

ollama run hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.0-9B-GGUF:Q8_0

Files and context on Mac with 16 GB

Each file of Ornith-1.0-9B-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	17.9 GB	Doesn't fit	—	—
Q8_0	9.53 GB	Tight	32K	65K
Q6_K	7.36 GB	Fits	97K	194K
Q5_K_M	6.47 GB	Fits	124K	247K
Q4_K_M	5.63 GB	Fits	149K	256K

Ornith-1.0-9B-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.