InternVL3 14B on NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation

Can the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation run InternVL3 14B?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q4_K_M it needs about 12.6 GB of 24.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 35.1 tok/s.

Best quant: Q4_K_M
Generation speed: 35.1 tok/s
Prompt processing: 1,886 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.5 s
Largest safe context: 32K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation

On Windows

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open InternVL3 14B in LM Studio

llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

On Linux

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open InternVL3 14B in LM Studio

llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

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 InternVL3 14B

Recommended for the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation: Q4_K_M. 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 Q4_K_M file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/InternVL3-14B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/InternVL3-14B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Shanghai AI Lab, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/OpenGVLab/InternVL3-14B (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 60Good quality (B) · 60 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q4_K_M, 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 RTX 4500 Ada Generation: 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.	27.4 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.	25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	14.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	12.1 / 15
Match score	78.6 / 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 RTX 4500 Ada Generation

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	9.5 GB	24.0 GB	57.6 tok/s	Runs great	44Fair quality (C) · 44 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	10.8 GB	24.0 GB	45.3 tok/s	Runs great	53Fair quality (C) · 53 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	12.6 GB	24.0 GB	35.1 tok/s	Runs great	60Good quality (B) · 60 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	14.1 GB	24.0 GB	29.0 tok/s	Runs well	62Good quality (B) · 62 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	15.8 GB	24.0 GB	24.3 tok/s	Runs well	63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	19.4 GB	24.0 GB	17.9 tok/s	Runs well	64Good quality (B) · 64 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (UD-Q8_K_XL) (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	33.7 GB	24.0 GB	3.0 tok/s	Very slowheavy RAM offload	64Good quality (B) · 64 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 51/100 (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

64Good quality (B) · 64 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Q8_0 · 41.7 tok/s · Runs great
64Good quality (B) · 64 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Q8_0 · 38.7 tok/s · Runs great
63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Q6_K · 46.6 tok/s · Runs great
64Good quality (B) · 64 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Q8_0 · 74.1 tok/s · Runs great
63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Q6_K · 41.5 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Q6_K · 50.5 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)

Quick answers

How much memory does InternVL3 14B need on the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 24GB?

At Q4_K_M it needs about 12.6 GB. The NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 24GB has 24.0 GB usable.

How fast is InternVL3 14B on the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 24GB?

About 35.1 tok/s at Q4_K_M, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of InternVL3 14B should I use on the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 24GB?

Q4_K_M. 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.