Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th Edition (13.8 and 15-inch): which AI models can it run?

Estimated from the specifications below. Choose the memory size you have or plan to buy, then read the table for that size.

Specifications

The May 2024 fact sheet lists 16GB and 32GB LPDDR5x. Bandwidth is Qualcomm's figure for the Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus families.

About 12 GB of it can hold a model.

Model	Fit	Needs (GB)	Writing speed (tokens per second)	Speed	Quality	Basis
Llama 3.2 3B llama3.2:3b	Fits	5	24 to 44	Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
Qwen3 4B qwen3:4b · thinks first	Fits	6	19 to 35	Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
Gemma 3 4B gemma3:4b	Fits	6.7	14 to 27	Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
Mistral 7B v0.3 mistral:7b	Fits	7.8	11 to 20	Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
Llama 3.1 8B llama3.1:8b	Fits	8.3	9.6 to 18	Unclear could be Moderate or Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
Qwen3 8B qwen3:8b · thinks first	Fits	8.9	9.1 to 17	Unclear could be Moderate or Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
Gemma 3 12B gemma3:12b	Won't fit	15.9	not known	n/a	not measured yet	Estimated
DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B deepseek-r1:14b	Won't fit	13.7	not known	n/a	not measured yet	Estimated
Phi-4 14B phi4:14b	Won't fit	13.9	not known	n/a	not measured yet	Estimated
Qwen3 14B qwen3:14b	Won't fit	13.4	not known	n/a	not measured yet	Estimated
gpt-oss 20B gpt-oss:20b	Won't fit	16.5	not known	n/a	not measured yet	Estimated
Gemma 3 27B gemma3:27b	Won't fit	27.2	not known	n/a	not measured yet	Estimated
Qwen3 30B (A3B) qwen3:30b	Won't fit	22.6	not known	n/a	9.3/10	Estimated
Qwen3 32B qwen3:32b	Won't fit	26.3	not known	n/a	not measured yet	Estimated
Llama 3.1 70B llama3.1:70b	Won't fit	51.5	not known	n/a	not measured yet	Estimated
gpt-oss 120B gpt-oss:120b	Won't fit	70.5	not known	n/a	not measured yet	Estimated

Models marked "thinks first" can write out their reasoning before they answer, so a job takes longer than the speed alone suggests.

About 28 GB of it can hold a model.

Model	Fit	Needs (GB)	Writing speed (tokens per second)	Speed	Quality	Basis
Llama 3.2 3B llama3.2:3b	Fits	5	24 to 44	Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
Qwen3 4B qwen3:4b · thinks first	Fits	6	19 to 35	Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
Gemma 3 4B gemma3:4b	Fits	6.7	14 to 27	Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
Mistral 7B v0.3 mistral:7b	Fits	7.8	11 to 20	Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
Llama 3.1 8B llama3.1:8b	Fits	8.3	9.6 to 18	Unclear could be Moderate or Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
Qwen3 8B qwen3:8b · thinks first	Fits	8.9	9.1 to 17	Unclear could be Moderate or Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
Gemma 3 12B gemma3:12b	Fits	15.9	5.8 to 11	Unclear could be Moderate or Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B deepseek-r1:14b · thinks first	Fits	13.7	5.2 to 9.8	Moderate	not measured yet	Estimated
Phi-4 14B phi4:14b	Fits	13.9	5.2 to 9.6	Moderate	not measured yet	Estimated
Qwen3 14B qwen3:14b · thinks first	Fits	13.4	5.1 to 9.4	Moderate	not measured yet	Estimated
gpt-oss 20B gpt-oss:20b · thinks first	Fits	16.5	12 to 22	Fast	not measured yet	Estimated
Gemma 3 27B gemma3:27b	Tight	27.2	2.8 to 5.2	Unclear could be Slow or Moderate	not measured yet	Estimated
Qwen3 30B (A3B) qwen3:30b · thinks first	Fits	22.6	14 to 26	Fast	9.3/10	Estimated
Qwen3 32B qwen3:32b · thinks first	Tight	26.3	2.4 to 4.4	Slow	not measured yet	Estimated
Llama 3.1 70B llama3.1:70b	Won't fit	51.5	not known	n/a	not measured yet	Estimated
gpt-oss 120B gpt-oss:120b	Won't fit	70.5	not known	n/a	not measured yet	Estimated

Models marked "thinks first" can write out their reasoning before they answer, so a job takes longer than the speed alone suggests.

Speed is the speed of writing an answer, shown as a range. Reading speed is not estimated. How the estimates work · How close they are · Back to the finder