Yi 1.5 on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 · 16GB VRAM

✅ Runs comfortably — Yi 1.5 9B @ Q8_0
Yi 1.5 9B at Q8_0 needs ~10.0 GB (weights 8.7 GB + KV 768 MB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 14.4 GB usable VRAM — plenty of headroom. Expect ~40–70 tok/s (very fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 16K · runs to its full 32K
quantneedsspeed
✓ Q8_010.0 GB~40–70 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q5_K_M7.1 GB~60–100 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q4_K_M6.2 GB~70–110 tok/s (very fast)
$runlocal install yi:9b
⚠ NVIDIA support is best-effort in v0.1 — verify before relying on it.
runlocal verdict card
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Yi 1.5: Runs comfortably
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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These share Yi 1.5's KV-cache geometry — they size memory the same way, so here's how they fit on a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 · 16GB VRAM too:

modelsharesverdict here
Llama 3.1 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Qwen2.5-Coder 4kv/128hd8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
Llama 3.2 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Llama 3.3 8kv/128hd ❌ Won't fit
Mistral 7B 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs comfortably
Mistral Small 3 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
Mistral Nemo 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)
Codestral 8kv/128hd ✅ Runs (tight)

…and 12 more — see the Yi 1.5 page.

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