Can I run LFM2.5-350M-RLCD on a Mac with 36 GB?

Yes

Its published weights (709 MB) fit in the 24.0 GB a Mac with 36 GB can use, with room for ≈ 125K tokens of context.

Full analysis of LFM2.5-350M-RLCD Everything that runs on Mac with 36 GB Get the weights on Hugging Face

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Files and context on Mac with 36 GB

Each file of LFM2.5-350M-RLCD (and of GGUF versions the site has analyzed), and how much context fits next to it, with the context cache in 16-bit or 8-bit.

File	Size	On Mac with 36 GB	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
As published	709 MB	Fits	125K	125K
4-bit (estimate)	199 MB	Fits	125K	125K

LFM2.5-350M-RLCD on other hardware

NVIDIA H100Yes
RTX 5090Yes
RTX 4090Yes
RTX 3090Yes
RTX 5060 Ti 16 GBYes
RTX 3060 12 GBYes
RTX 4060Yes
Mac with 32 GBYes
Mac with 36 GBYes
Mac with 64 GBYes
Mac with 128 GBYes

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Assumes 67% of the Mac's memory is usable (macOS's default limit for the GPU; it can be raised) and at least 4K tokens of context for one conversation, with the context cache in 16-bit unless noted. Fits leaves at least 20% of that memory for context; Tight leaves less.