Can Mac mini M4 Pro 24 GB run Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?
24 GB unified · 273 GB/s memory bandwidth · Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 81.3B parameters (3B active per token).
Short answer
No. It doesn't fit in memory.
Needs ≈34 GB but only ≈17 GB is available after the OS, other apps and Open WebUI.
Why it doesn’t fit
Even its smallest practical version (3-bit) needs about 34 GB for the model, its context memory and the runtime. After macOS (≈3.5 GB), a browser with a few tabs (≈3.0 GB) and Open WebUI (≈1.0 GB), Mac mini M4 Pro 24 GB has about 17 GB left, so it’s 18 GB short.
Ways to make it work
Close everything else
Not enough on its own: with every other app closed it’s still about 15 GB short.
Pick a smaller model from the same family
No smaller Qwen3-Next model in our catalog runs well here. See the other models below.
Get more memory
The same chip with 48 GB handles it: Comfortable.
Check your exact setup
These pages assume typical settings. A shorter context or a lighter chat app can change the answer.
Check Mac mini M4 Pro 24 GB
The same applies to every workload we rate (chat, coding questions, coding in a repository, agentic coding and long documents): they all need at least as much memory as chat.
Other models for Mac mini M4 Pro 24 GB
The best-rated models for chat on this machine.
- gpt-oss-20b60–80 tok/sExcellent
- MiniCPM5 2B60–85 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3.5 4B40–55 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3.5 9B20–30 tok/sExcellent
- Gemma 4 12B25–35 tok/sExcellent
- GLM-4.6V-Flash (10B)30–40 tok/sExcellent
Cheapest machines for Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Hardware rated comfortable or better for chat, lowest price first.
- Desktop PC · Ryzen 9 9950X (no GPU) · 64 GB DDR5$1,400 · 15–25 tok/sComfortable
- Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 64 GB$1,600 · 80–110 tok/sComfortable
- Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 128 GB$2,000 · 55–75 tok/sExcellent
- Mac mini M4 Pro 64 GB$2,199 · 70–100 tok/sExcellent
- Mac Studio M1 Max 64 GB$2,399 · 100–140 tok/sExcellent
- Mac mini M5 Pro 64 GB$2,499 · 65–110 tok/sExcellent
Different tool, context size or workload?
These pages use typical settings. The full check models your exact setup.