Macbook Unified Memory
Best local text models for MacBook 36gb
If you are searching for the best text model for MacBook 36GB, this compatibility index displays all open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) that fit your system at a baseline context length of 8,192 tokens. Compare quantization formats (FP16, Q8, Q4) to prevent CUDA OOM crashes.
Supported GPU Configurations & Tiers:
Apple M3 Pro Macbook Pro (36GB)
Compatible Local LLMs (17)
Meta30B params
Muse Glimmer 30B
Meta8B params
Llama-3.1 8B (Instruct)
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)27B params
Qwen3.6-27B
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)27B params
Qwen3.8-27B
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)35B params
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Alibaba Cloud (Qwen)32B params
Qwen2.5-Coder 32B
Mistral AI7B params
Mistral 7B v0.3
Mistral AI22B params
Codestral 22B
Mistral AI3B params
Ministral 3 3B (Instruct)
Mistral AI8B params
Ministral 3 8B
Mistral AI14B params
Ministral 3 14B
Google2.3B params
Gemma 4 E2B
Google4.5B params
Gemma 4 E4B
Google11.95B params
Gemma 4 12B
Google25.2B params
Gemma 4 26B A4B
Google30.7B params
Gemma 4 31B
OpenAI21B params