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Can the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor (128 GB) run Falcon-H1 0.5B Instruct?

14Basic quality (D) · 14 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 48/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At F16 it needs about 11.0 GB of 115 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 151 tok/s.

Best quant
F16
Generation speed
151 tok/s
Prompt processing
11,077 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
16K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor (128 GB)

On Linux on ARM boards

vLLM

Inference server · runs on vLLM

  • The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.
vllm serve tiiuae/Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct
  • LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Falcon-H1 0.5B Instruct

Recommended for the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor (128 GB): F16. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the F16 file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/tiiuae/Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct-GGUF:BF16

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from TII, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon-H1-0.5B-Instruct (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 14Basic quality (D) · 14 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 48/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at F16, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great
How well it runs on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor (128 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.6.3 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.2.2 / 15
Match score48.5 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor (128 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 10.2 GB 115 GB 1,058 tok/s Runs great 9Basic quality (D) · 9 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 10.2 GB 115 GB 833 tok/s Runs great 11Basic quality (D) · 11 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 47/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 10.3 GB 115 GB 644 tok/s Runs great 13Basic quality (D) · 13 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 48/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 10.3 GB 115 GB 532 tok/s Runs great 13Basic quality (D) · 13 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 48/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 10.4 GB 115 GB 447 tok/s Runs great 13Basic quality (D) · 13 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 48/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 10.5 GB 115 GB 328 tok/s Runs great 14Basic quality (D) · 14 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 48/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 11.0 GB 115 GB 151 tok/s Runs great 14Basic quality (D) · 14 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 48/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Quick answers

How much memory does Falcon-H1 0.5B Instruct need on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor 128GB?

At F16 it needs about 11.0 GB. The NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor 128GB has 115 GB usable.

How fast is Falcon-H1 0.5B Instruct on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor 128GB?

About 151 tok/s at F16, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Falcon-H1 0.5B Instruct should I use on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor 128GB?

F16. Of the versions that fit, it is the one that runs best; when two run equally well, the check prefers the higher-rated one.

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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