Laguna S 2.1 (118B-A8B) on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti run Laguna S 2.1 (118B-A8B)?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. Laguna S 2.1 (118B-A8B) needs about 50.0 GB even at Q2_K; the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti has 16.0 GB usable.

Download Laguna S 2.1 (118B-A8B)

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-S-2.1-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/poolside/Laguna-S-2.1-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-S-2.1 (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 60Good quality (B) · 60 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 8/100 (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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti: 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.	8.1 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.	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	8.1 / 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 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	50.0 GB	16.0 GB	—	Won't run	60Good quality (B) · 60 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 8/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	60.6 GB	16.0 GB	—	Won't run	72Great quality (A) · 72 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 files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	74.7 GB	16.0 GB	—	Won't run	81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	86.5 GB	16.0 GB	—	Won't run	83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	99.4 GB	16.0 GB	—	Won't run	85Excellent quality (A+) · 85 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	128 GB	16.0 GB	—	Won't run	86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	238 GB	16.0 GB	—	Won't run	86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (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.

Hardware that can run it

86Excellent quality (A+) · 86 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M3 Ultra (256 GB) Q8_0 · 45.5 tok/s · Runs great
85Excellent quality (A+) · 85 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 93/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M2 Ultra (192 GB) Q6_K · 58.0 tok/s · Runs great
81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Q4_K_M · 143 tok/s · Runs great
81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB) Q4_K_M · 39.9 tok/s · Runs great
83Great quality (A) · 83 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Max (128 GB) Q5_K_M · 49.3 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GB10 (128 GB) Q4_K_M · 36.7 tok/s · Runs great

Models that do run on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti

82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Gemma 4 12B Q6_K · 63.8 tok/s
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 91/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. K2 Horizon 7B Q8_0 · 62.2 tok/s
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiMo V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B Q8_0 · 59.5 tok/s
78Great quality (A) · 78 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. SenseNova Loop 9B Preview Q8_0 · 58.0 tok/s
80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 90/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Qwen3.8 27B Q3_K_M · 51.2 tok/s

Quick answers

How much memory does Laguna S 2.1 (118B-A8B) need on the RTX 5070 Ti 16GB?

Even at Q2_K it needs about 50.0 GB; the RTX 5070 Ti 16GB has 16.0 GB usable.

What can the RTX 5070 Ti 16GB run instead?

Gemma 4 12B, K2 Horizon 7B and MiMo V2.6 Distill Qwen 9B run best on it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

What hardware can run Laguna S 2.1 (118B-A8B)?

M3 Ultra 256GB, M2 Ultra 192GB and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB 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.