Kolibri 1 (78B-A3.5B) on AMD Instinct MI325X

Can the AMD Instinct MI325X run Kolibri 1 (78B-A3.5B)?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At F16 it needs about 170 GB of 256 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 149 tok/s.

Best quant: F16
Generation speed: 149 tok/s
Prompt processing: 29,280 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 256K

Best app to run it on the AMD Instinct MI325X

On Linux

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 Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1-BF16

Lemonade AMD’s own app: llama.cpp tuned for Radeon on Vulkan and ROCm.
LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

On Windows

Lemonade

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, ONNX Runtime GenAI (Ryzen AI NPU)

AMD’s own app: llama.cpp tuned for Radeon on Vulkan and ROCm.

lemonade pull bartowski/Kolibri-1-GGUF:BF16

LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.

Want an agent? Kolibri 1 (78B-A3.5B) supports tool use, so you can pair a llama.cpp or MLX LM server with one of these. Apps that run on this computer come first.

Coding agents

Personal assistants

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 Kolibri 1 (78B-A3.5B)

Recommended for the AMD Instinct MI325X: 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 files (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/bartowski/Kolibri-1-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/bartowski/Kolibri-1-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1-BF16 (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Aleph Alpha. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/Aleph-Alpha/aleph-alpha-inference (opens in a new tab)

Aleph Alpha's inference package with the vLLM plugin needed to serve Kolibri in vLLM.

git clone https://github.com/Aleph-Alpha/aleph-alpha-inference

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

How it’s rated

Quality 91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (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 AMD Instinct MI325X: 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.	41.0 / 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.	15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	15.0 / 15
Match score	96.0 / 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 AMD Instinct MI325X

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	44.8 GB	256 GB	289 tok/s	Runs great	63Good quality (B) · 63 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	51.8 GB	256 GB	273 tok/s	Runs great	76Great quality (A) · 76 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.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	61.2 GB	256 GB	256 tok/s	Runs great	86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 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.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	69.0 GB	256 GB	240 tok/s	Runs great	88Excellent quality (A+) · 88 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	77.6 GB	256 GB	228 tok/s	Runs great	90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	96.4 GB	256 GB	205 tok/s	Runs great	91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 89/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF · folder (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	170 GB	256 GB	149 tok/s	Runs great	91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (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.

Other hardware that runs it

91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M2 Ultra (192 GB) Q8_0 · 84.4 tok/s · Runs great
91Excellent quality (A+) · 91 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GB10 (128 GB) Q8_0 · 41.5 tok/s · Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (128 GB) Q6_K · 45.4 tok/s · Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Max (128 GB) Q6_K · 81.6 tok/s · Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Q6_K · 170 tok/s · Runs great
90Excellent quality (A+) · 90 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 95/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB) Q6_K · 58.3 tok/s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does Kolibri 1 (78B-A3.5B) need on the AMD Instinct MI325X 256GB?

At F16 it needs about 170 GB. The AMD Instinct MI325X 256GB has 256 GB usable.

How fast is Kolibri 1 (78B-A3.5B) on the AMD Instinct MI325X 256GB?

About 149 tok/s at F16, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Kolibri 1 (78B-A3.5B) should I use on the AMD Instinct MI325X 256GB?

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.