Hemmingway 1.5 on Intel Core i5-8400T / i7-8700T (8th gen desktop) NAS (4 GB)

Can the Intel Core i5-8400T / i7-8700T (8th gen desktop) NAS (4 GB) run Hemmingway 1.5?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. Hemmingway 1.5 needs about 12.1 GB even at Q2_K; the Intel Core i5-8400T / i7-8700T (8th gen desktop) NAS (4 GB) has 2.0 GB usable.

Download Hemmingway 1.5

Recommended: Q2_K. 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 Q2_K file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/bartowski/HemmingwayAI_Hemmingway-1.5-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/bartowski/HemmingwayAI_Hemmingway-1.5-GGUF:Q2_K

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/HemmingwayAI/Hemmingway-1.5 (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 46Fair quality (C) · 46 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q2_K, 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 Won't run: How well it runs on the Intel Core i5-8400T / i7-8700T (8th gen desktop) NAS (4 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 the NAS’s memory that models can use (the rest stays with the NAS system and its storage services); fewer when it goes past that limit.	0.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	0.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	0.0 / 15
Match score	6.3 / 100

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

It doesn’t fit, so only a reduced share of the quality points counts and fit, speed and memory use score zero.

Every quantization on the Intel Core i5-8400T / i7-8700T (8th gen desktop) NAS (4 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	12.1 GB	2.0 GB	—	Won't run	46Fair quality (C) · 46 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	14.5 GB	2.0 GB	—	Won't run	56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 7/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	17.7 GB	2.0 GB	—	Won't run	63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 8/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	20.4 GB	2.0 GB	—	Won't run	64Good quality (B) · 64 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 8/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	23.4 GB	2.0 GB	—	Won't run	66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 8/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	29.8 GB	2.0 GB	—	Won't run	67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	55.1 GB	2.0 GB	—	Won't run	67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF · folder (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.

Hardware that can run it

66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Q6_K · 56.7 tok/s · Runs great
63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Q4_K_M · 42.7 tok/s · Runs great
63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Q4_K_M · 46.0 tok/s · Runs great
63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Q4_K_M · 37.7 tok/s · Runs great
56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Q3_K_M · 43.4 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Q3_K_M · 52.9 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)

Models that do run on the Intel Core i5-8400T / i7-8700T (8th gen desktop) NAS (4 GB)

53Fair quality (C) · 53 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LFM3 1.7B Q4_K_M · 23.1 tok/s
39Basic quality (D) · 39 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. PaddleOCR-VL 1.6 0.9B Q4_K_M · 41.7 tok/s
39Basic quality (D) · 39 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 1.3B Q4_K_M · 30.8 tok/s
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LFM3-VL 2B Q3_K_M · 27.0 tok/s
34Basic quality (D) · 34 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM5 1B Q4_K_M · 37.1 tok/s

Quick answers

How much memory does Hemmingway 1.5 need on the Intel Core i5-8400T / i7-8700T (8th gen desktop) NAS 4GB?

Even at Q2_K it needs about 12.1 GB; the Intel Core i5-8400T / i7-8700T (8th gen desktop) NAS 4GB has 2.0 GB usable.

What can the Intel Core i5-8400T / i7-8700T (8th gen desktop) NAS 4GB run instead?

LFM3 1.7B, PaddleOCR-VL 1.6 0.9B and MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 1.3B run best on it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

What hardware can run Hemmingway 1.5?

RTX 5090 32GB, RTX 3090 24GB and RTX 4090 24GB run it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

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.