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M5 16GB

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Quality Fastest Least mem Newest
Runs comfortably
Qwen3.8-27B UD-IQ1_S Unsloth
6.2GB 14k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 11 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 6/16GB
Qwen3.8-27B UD-Q2_K_XL Unsloth
9.8GB 9k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 8 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 10/16GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q8_0
9.8GB 12k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 8 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 10/16GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q6_K
7.6GB 16k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 10 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 8/16GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q5_K_M
6.6GB 18k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 11 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 7/16GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q4_K_M
5.8GB 20k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 12 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 6/16GB
Phi-4 14B Q4_K_M
8.5GB 16k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 9 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 9/16GB
Qwen3 14B Q4_K_M
9.0GB 14k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 8 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 9/16GB
Gemma 4 12B Q4_K_M
7.2GB 19k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 10 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 7/16GB
Gemma 4 12B Q8_0
13.0GB 6k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 6 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 13/16GB
Qwen3 8B Q8_0
8.5GB 15k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 9 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 9/16GB
Qwen3 8B Q4_K_M
5.2GB 21k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 13 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 5/16GB
Gemma 3 12B Q4_K_M
7.5GB 20k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 10 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 8/16GB
Gemma 3 12B Q8_0
13.5GB 5k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 6 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 14/16GB
Mistral Nemo 12B Q8_0
13.2GB 6k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 6 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 13/16GB
Mistral Nemo 12B Q4_K_M
7.3GB 21k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 10 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 7/16GB
Qwen3 4B Q4_K_M
2.6GB 32k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 24 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 3/16GB
Phi-4 Mini Q8_0
4.1GB 59k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 19 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 4/16GB
Phi-4 Mini Q4_K_M
2.5GB 67k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 28 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 3/16GB
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Q8_0
8.0GB 16k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 9 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 8/16GB
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Q4_K_M
4.5GB 23k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 14 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 5/16GB
Gemma 3 4B Q8_0
5.0GB 36k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 15 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 5/16GB
Gemma 3 4B Q4_K_M
3.0GB 43k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 22 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 3/16GB
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Q8_0
3.5GB 52k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 20 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 4/16GB
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Q4_K_M
2.0GB 58k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 31 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 2/16GB
Mellum2.1 12B Thinking Q4_K_M
7.0GB 109k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 55 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 7/16GB
Runs tight
Gemma 4 26B A4B NVFP4
14.0GB 1k cap
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 18 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 14/16GB
Gemma 4 26B A4B Q4_K_M
13.0GB ctx headroom ~0
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 19 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 13/16GB
Qwen3 30B A3B Q4_K_M
15.5GB ctx headroom ~0
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 24 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 16/16GB
Phi-4 14B Q8_0
15.0GB 2k cap
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 6 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 15/16GB
Qwen3 14B Q8_0
15.0GB 2k cap
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 5 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 15/16GB
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct FP16
16.0GB ctx headroom ~0
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 5 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 16/16GB
LFM2.5-24B-A2B Q4_K_M
13.7GB ctx headroom ~0
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 63 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 14/16GB

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