Best local LLMs for the Rockchip RK3588 / RK3588S (24 GB)

Each list assumes the context that task needs, so a model that fits for chat may rank lower for long documents.

General chat at 8K context

  1. 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  2. 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  3. 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  4. 77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 26B-A4B Q3_K_M · 11.3 tok/s · Runs well
  5. 77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nex N2 Mini (35B-A3B) Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)

Coding at 32K context

  1. 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  2. 77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 26B-A4B Q3_K_M · 11.3 tok/s · Runs well
  3. 77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nex N2 Mini (35B-A3B) Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  4. 76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. KAT-Coder V2.5 Dev (35B-A3B) Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  5. 76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Sage-A1.5 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)

Reasoning at 32K context

  1. 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  2. 77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nex N2 Mini (35B-A3B) Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  3. 76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. KAT-Coder V2.5 Dev (35B-A3B) Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  4. 76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Sage-A1.5 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  5. 74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apodex 1.1 Mini (35B-A3B) Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)

Documents (RAG) at 32K context

  1. 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  2. 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  3. 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  4. 77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 26B-A4B Q3_K_M · 11.3 tok/s · Runs well
  5. 75Great quality (A) · 75 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)

Agents & tools at 64K context

  1. 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  2. 77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Nex N2 Mini (35B-A3B) Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  3. 76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. KAT-Coder V2.5 Dev (35B-A3B) Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  4. 77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 26B-A4B Q3_K_M · 11.3 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  5. 73Great quality (A) · 73 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Agents-A1 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)

Reverse engineering at 32K context

  1. 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.5 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  2. 73Great quality (A) · 73 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GLM-4.7 Flash (30B-A3B) Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  3. 70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at MXFP4, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. gpt-oss 20B MXFP4 · 9.9 tok/s · Slow
  4. 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
  5. 78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B Q3_K_M · 14.2 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.

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