Mac mini M4 16GB

16 GB unified · 120 GB/s

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What it runs

Every model in the catalogue, with the best quant for this hardware. Estimates, not measurements.

ModelQuantFitsMemoryMax contextDecode @128kPrefillGood for
Gemma 4 12B

Google

Q4_K_Mfits10.3 GB146k233k with q8 cache

8tok/sest.

45 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 9B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mfits10.7 GB128k212k with q8 cache

8tok/sest.

54 tok/s–
Qwen 3.5 4B

Alibaba Qwen

Q8_0fits9.6 GB158k256k with q8 cache

9tok/sest.

84 tok/schat
Gemma 4 E4B

Google

Q5_K_Mfits10.0 GB128k

8tok/sest.

76 tok/s–
DeepSeek V4 Flash

DeepSeek

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run102.3 GB––––
GLM 5.3 Flash

Z.ai

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run104.1 GB––––
Qwen 3.8 Flash Next

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run77.9 GB––––
MiniMax M2.7

MiniMax

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run102.5 GB––––
Qwen 3.8 27B

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run24.8 GB––––
Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run43.5 GB––––
Qwen 3.6 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run25.2 GB––––
Gemma 4 31B

Google

Q4_K_Mwon't run29.2 GB––––
Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B

NVIDIA

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run53.4 GB––––
Qwen3 Coder Next

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run49.6 GB––––
gpt-oss 120B

OpenAI

MXFP4won't run64.9 GB––––
Mistral Small 4 119B

Mistral AI

UD-Q2_K_XLwon't run41.6 GB––––
Qwen 3.5 27B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run25.1 GB––––
Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run24.5 GB––––
GLM 4.5 Air

Z.ai

Q2_Kwon't run66.6 GB––––
Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Google

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run19.8 GB––––
Devstral Small 2 24B

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run34.7 GB––––
GLM 4.7 Flash

Z.ai

Q4_K_Mwon't run25.0 GB––––
Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run24.4 GB––––
Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run49.6 GB––––
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B

NVIDIA

UD-Q6_K_XLwon't run34.7 GB––––
Kimi Linear 48B-A3B

Moonshot AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run30.4 GB––––
Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run30.6 GB––––
gpt-oss 20B

OpenAI

MXFP4won't run15.6 GB––––
Qwen3 32B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run51.8 GB––––
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run51.8 GB––––
Gemma 3 27B

Google

Q4_K_Mwon't run27.2 GB––––
Llama 3.3 70B

Meta

Q4_K_Mwon't run81.0 GB––––
Mistral Small 3.2 24B

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run34.7 GB––––
Ministral 3 14B

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run29.0 GB14k27k with q8 cache–––
Qwen3 14B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run29.7 GB10k19k with q8 cache–––
DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B

DeepSeek

Q4_K_Mwon't run24.0 GB36k67k with q8 cache–––
Phi-4 14B

Microsoft

Q4_K_Mwon't run34.6 GB9k16k with q8 cache–––
Qwen3 8B

Alibaba Qwen

Q4_K_Mwon't run24.0 GB36k40k with q8 cache–––
Granite 4.2 8B

IBM

Q4_K_Mwon't run26.5 GB30k55k with q8 cache–––
Ministral 3 8B

Mistral AI

Q4_K_Mwon't run23.2 GB37k68k with q8 cache–––
LFM2.5 8B-A1B

Liquid AI

UD-Q4_K_Mwon't run12.3 GB97k125k with q8 cache–––
Llama 3.1 8B

Meta

Q4_K_Mwon't run21.9 GB42k76k with q8 cache–––

Specifications

From the manufacturer's published specifications; sources are linked where we have them.

Chip
Apple M4 (10-core GPU)
Memory bus
128-bit
Memory bandwidth
120 GB/s
FP16 compute
3.76 TFLOPS
Software
Metal
Unified memory
16 GB
GPU can use by default
10.7 GB
GPU can use, tuned
10.666666666666666 GB
Operating system
macos
Processor
M4 10-core
Storage
256 GB

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