Command R on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 · 16GB VRAM

🐢 CPU-only (slow) — Command R 35B @ Q3_K_M
Command R 35B at Q3_K_M needs ~26.7 GB (weights 15.9 GB + KV 10.0 GB + overhead 815 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 14.4 GB usable VRAM — runs on CPU only — expect slow generation.
context @ Q3_K_M: runs to 8K · won't fit past that on this rig
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✗ Q8_046.3 GB—
✗ Q5_K_M34.3 GB—
✗ Q4_K_M30.7 GB—
~ Q3_K_M26.7 GB—
$runlocal install command-r:35b
⚠ NVIDIA support is best-effort in v0.1 — verify before relying on it.
⚠ This model spills entirely to system RAM — single-stream speed is governed by your RAM bandwidth (not your GPU's), so it isn't estimated here.
runlocal verdict card
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Command R: CPU-only (slow)
for your own README — links back here

Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen2.5 · Qwen3 · Gemma 4 · Gemma 3

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