SmolLM2 on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 24GB VRAM
✅ Runs comfortably — SmolLM2 1.7B @ FP16
SmolLM2 1.7B at FP16 needs ~5.2 GB (weights 3.2 GB + KV 1.5 GB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 21.6 GB usable VRAM — plenty of headroom. Expect ~80–130 tok/s (very fast).
context @ FP16: comfortable to 8K
| quant | needs | speed |
|---|---|---|
| ✓ FP16 | 5.2 GB | ~80–130 tok/s (very fast) |
| ✓ Q8_0 | 3.7 GB | ~120–190 tok/s (very fast) |
| ✓ Q4_K_M | 3.0 GB | ~150–250 tok/s (very fast) |
$runlocal install smollm2:1.7b
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 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Qwen2.5 · Gemma 3 · Mistral Small 3
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