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Gemma4 26B A4B runs easily on 16GB Macs
Typically, models in the 26B-class range are difficult to run on 16GB macs because any GPU acceleration requires the accelerated layers to sit entirely within wired memory. It's possible with aggressive quants (2 bits, or maybe a very lightweight IQ3\_XXS), but quality degrades significantly by doin
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Gemma4 26B A4B runs easily on 16GB Macs
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Typically, models in the 26B-class range are difficult to run on 16GB macs because any GPU acceleration requires the accelerated layers to sit entirely within wired memory. It's possible with aggressive quants (2 bits, or maybe a very lightweight IQ3\_XXS), but quality degrades significantly by doin