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Best Local LLM for 16GB in 2026: RTX 5060 Ti, 4060 Ti and Mac mini M4 (Coding First)

Data graphic: Best local LLM: 16GB. gpt-oss-20b 12.8GB; Gemma 4 26B A4B 14.2GB; Devstral Small 2 14.3GB; Qwen3.5-9B 5.68GB; Gemma 4 12B 6.98GB

gpt-oss-20b and Gemma 4 26B A4B lead on 16GB NVIDIA cards, while a 16GB Mac mini M4 is better served by Qwen3.5-9B. File sizes, context limits and VRAM math.

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