Apple M3 (8GB)
The Apple M3 (8GB) has 8GB VRAM and 100 GB/s memory bandwidth. It can run 20 of our 53 tracked models natively in VRAM at 8k context.
8 GB VRAM100 GB/sMETALlaptopUnified memory
Models this GPU runs natively in VRAM (20)
- Mistral Nemo 12B Instruct12.2B · MMLU-Pro 35.6Q2_K · ~27.3 t/s
- Gemma 3 12B Instruct12.2B · MMLU-Pro —Q2_K · ~27.3 t/s
- Llama 3.1 8B Instruct8B · MMLU-Pro 37.5Q4_K_M · ~25 t/s
- DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B8B · MMLU-Pro 41.0Q4_K_M · ~25 t/s
- Qwen3 8B8B · MMLU-Pro —Q4_K_M · ~25 t/s
- Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct7.6B · MMLU-Pro 36.5Q5_K_M · ~21.1 t/s
- Mistral 7B Instruct v0.37.25B · MMLU-Pro 30.0Q4_K_M · ~27.6 t/s
- Gemma 3 4B Instruct4B · MMLU-Pro —Q8 · ~25 t/s
- Gemma 4 E4B4B · MMLU-Pro —Q8 · ~25 t/s
- Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct3.8B · MMLU-Pro 35.6Q4_K_M · ~52.6 t/s
- Llama 3.2 3B Instruct3.2B · MMLU-Pro 24.0Q8 · ~31.3 t/s
- Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct3.1B · MMLU-Pro 32.4Q8 · ~32.3 t/s
- Gemma 2 2B Instruct2.6B · MMLU-Pro 17.8Q8 · ~38.5 t/s
- Gemma 4 E2B2B · MMLU-Pro —FP16 · ~25 t/s
- SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct1.7B · MMLU-Pro 19.0FP16 · ~29.4 t/s
- Qwen 2.5 1.5B Instruct1.5B · MMLU-Pro 16.8FP16 · ~33.3 t/s
- Llama 3.2 1B Instruct1.24B · MMLU-Pro 12.5FP16 · ~40.3 t/s
- Gemma 3 1B Instruct1B · MMLU-Pro —FP16 · ~50 t/s
- Qwen 2.5 0.5B Instruct0.5B · MMLU-Pro 10.0FP16 · ~100 t/s
- SmolLM2 360M Instruct0.36B · MMLU-Pro 8.0FP16 · ~138.9 t/s
Too large for this GPU (33)
- Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
- Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct
- Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct
- Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct
- Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
- Mistral Small 22B
- Mixtral 8x7B Instruct v0.1
- Gemma 2 27B Instruct
- Gemma 2 9B Instruct
- DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
- DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
- Command-R 35B
- Yi 1.5 34B Chat
- Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
- Mixtral 8x22B Instruct v0.1
- Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
- Phi-4 14B Instruct
- DeepSeek V3 671B
- DeepSeek R1 671B
- Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
- Gemma 3 27B Instruct
- Llama 4 Scout 109B
- Llama 4 Maverick 400B
- Qwen3 235B-A22B (MoE)
- Qwen3 30B-A3B (MoE)
- Qwen3 32B
- Qwen3 14B
- Gemma 4 31B
- Gemma 4 26B (MoE)
- Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B (MoE)
- Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B (MoE)
- Qwen 3.6 27B
- Kimi K2.6