M4 16GB

31 models / sorted by best_quality

Quality Fastest Least mem Newest
Runs comfortably
Qwen3.8-27B UD-Q2_K_XL Unsloth
9.8GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 7 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 10/16GB
Qwen3.8-27B UD-IQ1_S Unsloth
6.2GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 12 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 6/16GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q8_0
9.8GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 7 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 10/16GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q6_K
7.6GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 10 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 8/16GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q5_K_M
6.6GB 262k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 11 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 7/16GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q4_K_M
5.8GB 262k ctx
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 8 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 9/16GB
Qwen3 14B Q4_K_M
9.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 8 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 9/16GB
Gemma 4 12B Q8_0
13.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 6 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 13/16GB
Gemma 4 12B Q4_K_M
7.2GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 10 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 7/16GB
Qwen3 8B Q4_K_M
5.2GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 14 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 5/16GB
Qwen3 8B Q8_0
8.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 8 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 9/16GB
Gemma 3 12B Q8_0
13.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 5 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 14/16GB
Gemma 3 12B Q4_K_M
7.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 10 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 8/16GB
Mistral Nemo 12B Q4_K_M
7.3GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 10 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 7/16GB
Mistral Nemo 12B Q8_0
13.2GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 5 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 13/16GB
Qwen3 4B Q4_K_M
2.6GB 32k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 28 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 3/16GB
Phi-4 Mini Q8_0
4.1GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 18 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 4/16GB
Phi-4 Mini Q4_K_M
2.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 29 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 3/16GB
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Q8_0
8.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 9 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 8/16GB
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Q4_K_M
4.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 16 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 5/16GB
Gemma 3 4B Q8_0
5.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 14 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 5/16GB
Gemma 3 4B Q4_K_M
3.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 24 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 3/16GB
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Q8_0
3.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 21 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 4/16GB
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Q4_K_M
2.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 36 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 2/16GB
Runs tight
Gemma 4 26B A4B Q4_K_M
13.0GB 0k cap
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 37 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 13/16GB
Gemma 4 26B A4B NVFP4
14.0GB 256k ctx
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 34 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 14/16GB
Qwen3 30B A3B Q4_K_M
15.5GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 47 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 16/16GB
Phi-4 14B Q8_0
15.0GB 16k ctx
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 5 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 15/16GB
Qwen3 14B Q8_0
15.0GB 128k ctx
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 5 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 15/16GB
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct FP16
16.0GB 0k cap
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 5 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 16/16GB

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