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Can the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS (64 GB) run Jamba 1.5 Large?

49Fair quality (C) · 49 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.

No, it doesn’t fit

No. Jamba 1.5 Large needs about 165 GB even at Q2_K; the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS (64 GB) has 54.4 GB usable.

Download Jamba 1.5 Large

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from AI21 Labs, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/ai21labs/AI21-Jamba-Large-1.5 (opens in a new tab)

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How it’s rated

Quality 49Fair quality (C) · 49 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 i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS (64 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.6.6 / 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 score6.6 / 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 i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS (64 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 165 GB 54.4 GB — Won't run 49Fair quality (C) · 49 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. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 201 GB 54.4 GB — Won't run 58Good quality (B) · 58 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. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 248 GB 54.4 GB — Won't run 66Good quality (B) · 66 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. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 288 GB 54.4 GB — Won't run 67Good quality (B) · 67 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 332 GB 54.4 GB — Won't run 69Good quality (B) · 69 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 428 GB 54.4 GB — Won't run 70Great quality (A) · 70 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. All files (opens in a new tab)
F16 802 GB 54.4 GB — Won't run 70Great quality (A) · 70 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. 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

Models that do run on the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS (64 GB)

Quick answers

How much memory does Jamba 1.5 Large need on the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS 64GB?

Even at Q2_K it needs about 165 GB; the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS 64GB has 54.4 GB usable.

What can the Intel Core i3-8100 / Pentium (8th gen desktop) NAS 64GB run instead?

Nanbeige4.3 33B, Qwen3.8 27B and Flint (40B-A2.5B) run best on it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

What hardware can run Jamba 1.5 Large?

M3 Ultra 512GB, M3 Ultra 256GB and AMD Instinct MI350X 288GB 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.

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