Can a Mac mini M4 24GB run gemma-4-26B-A4B-it?
No. gemma-4-26B-A4B-it needs 19.0GB at MXFP4_MOE with llama.cpp and 8K context; the Mac mini M4 24GB has 24GB of unified memory (~75% GPU-addressable) (17.5GB usable) — it does not fit, even with CPU offload.
Mac mini M4 24GB · gemma-4-26B-A4B-it · MXFP4_MOE
❌ Won't fit
betaHybrid attention — KV computed as full-cache upper bound
weights 16.6 GBKV cache 2.01 GBoverhead 0.44 GBpool 17.5 GBneeds 19.0 GB — over the pool
assumes llama.cpp · batch 1 · 8K context · fp16 KV cache
No quant of this model fits cleanly on this hardware with llama-cpp at this context — a smaller model or more memory is the real fix.
$999 MSRP · as of 2026-07-11
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Every quant, graded
Mac mini M4 24GB × gemma-4-26B-A4B-it, llama.cpp, 8K context.
| Quant | File size | Fit | Speed tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q8_0 | 26.9 GB | Won't fit | |
| UD-Q5_K_M | 21.1 GB | Won't fit | |
| UD-Q4_K_M | 16.9 GB | Won't fit | |
| MXFP4_MOE | 16.6 GB | Won't fit |
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