Hermes 4 405B on Intel Core Ultra 5 225 / 7 265 / 9 285 (desktop) NAS (192 GB)

Can the Intel Core Ultra 5 225 / 7 265 / 9 285 (desktop) NAS (192 GB) run Hermes 4 405B?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. Hermes 4 405B needs about 181 GB even at Q2_K; the Intel Core Ultra 5 225 / 7 265 / 9 285 (desktop) NAS (192 GB) has 173 GB usable.

Download Hermes 4 405B

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 (UD-Q2_K_XL) files (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/Hermes-4-405B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Hermes-4-405B-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/NousResearch/Hermes-4-405B (opens in a new tab)

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

How it’s rated

Quality 56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 7/100 (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 Ultra 5 225 / 7 265 / 9 285 (desktop) NAS (192 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.	7.6 / 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	7.6 / 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 Ultra 5 225 / 7 265 / 9 285 (desktop) NAS (192 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	181 GB	173 GB	—	Won't run	56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 7/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (UD-Q2_K_XL) · folder (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	218 GB	173 GB	—	Won't run	67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (UD-Q3_K_XL) · folder (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	266 GB	173 GB	—	Won't run	76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	307 GB	173 GB	—	Won't run	77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (UD-Q5_K_XL) · folder (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	351 GB	173 GB	—	Won't run	79Great quality (A) · 79 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	449 GB	173 GB	—	Won't run	80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	830 GB	173 GB	—	Won't run	80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 10/100 (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

76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Instinct MI350X Q4_K_M · 20.8 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip Q3_K_M · 27.8 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Instinct MI325X Q3_K_M · 20.2 tok/s · Runs well
56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA B200 Q2_K · 39.7 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Instinct MI300X Q2_K · 22.7 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M3 Ultra (256 GB) Q2_K · 3.5 tok/s · Slow (tight fit)

Models that do run on the Intel Core Ultra 5 225 / 7 265 / 9 285 (desktop) NAS (192 GB)

93Excellent quality (A+) · 93 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.8 Flash Next (125B-A6B) Q5_K_M · 12.1 tok/s
86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 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. Kolibri 1 (78B-A3.5B) Q4_K_M · 24.3 tok/s
84Great quality (A) · 84 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 120B MXFP4 · 18.1 tok/s
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. MiniMax M2.7 (230B-A10B) Q3_K_M · 11.4 tok/s
85Excellent quality (A+) · 85 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. Solar Open 2 250B Q4_K_M · 6.0 tok/s

Quick answers

How much memory does Hermes 4 405B need on the Intel Core Ultra 5 225 / 7 265 / 9 285 (desktop) NAS 192GB?

Even at Q2_K it needs about 181 GB; the Intel Core Ultra 5 225 / 7 265 / 9 285 (desktop) NAS 192GB has 173 GB usable.

What can the Intel Core Ultra 5 225 / 7 265 / 9 285 (desktop) NAS 192GB run instead?

Qwen3.8 Flash Next (125B-A6B), Kolibri 1 (78B-A3.5B) and gpt-oss 120B run best on it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

What hardware can run Hermes 4 405B?

AMD Instinct MI350X 288GB, NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip 252GB and AMD Instinct MI325X 256GB 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.