LFM2 8B-A1B on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

Can the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB run LFM2 8B-A1B?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q4_K_M it needs about 6.2 GB of 8.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 128 tok/s.

Best quant: Q4_K_M
Generation speed: 128 tok/s
Prompt processing: 21,163 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 125K

Best app to run it on the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

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 LiquidAI/LFM2-8B-A1B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

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

On Linux

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 LiquidAI/LFM2-8B-A1B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

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

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 LFM2 8B-A1B

Recommended for the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB: 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/LiquidAI/LFM2-8B-A1B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2-8B-A1B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2-8B-A1B (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Liquid AI. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/Liquid4All/cookbook (opens in a new tab)

Liquid AI’s official cookbook for running LFM models.

git clone https://github.com/Liquid4All/cookbook

Links checked 2 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 36Basic quality (D) · 36 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (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 AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB: 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.	16.2 / 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	71.2 / 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 Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	4.4 GB	8.0 GB	172 tok/s	Runs great	26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	5.2 GB	8.0 GB	150 tok/s	Runs great	31Basic quality (D) · 31 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	6.2 GB	8.0 GB	128 tok/s	Runs great	36Basic quality (D) · 36 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	7.0 GB	8.0 GB	113 tok/s	Runs welltight fit	36Basic quality (D) · 36 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	7.9 GB	8.0 GB	100 tok/s	Runs welltight fit	37Basic quality (D) · 37 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	9.9 GB	8.0 GB	54.0 tok/s	Runs welloffloads to RAM	38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 57/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	17.8 GB	8.0 GB	17.2 tok/s	Slowheavy RAM offload	38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 45/100 (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

38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX F16 · 93.7 tok/s · Runs great
38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Pro (24 GB) Q8_0 · 71.4 tok/s · Runs great
38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intel Arc B580 Q8_0 · 93.5 tok/s · Runs great
38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB Q8_0 · 95.5 tok/s · Runs great
38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 F16 · 101 tok/s · Runs great
38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Q8_0 · 117 tok/s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does LFM2 8B-A1B need on the RX 9060 XT 8GB?

At Q4_K_M it needs about 6.2 GB. The RX 9060 XT 8GB has 8.0 GB usable.

How fast is LFM2 8B-A1B on the RX 9060 XT 8GB?

About 128 tok/s at Q4_K_M, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of LFM2 8B-A1B should I use on the RX 9060 XT 8GB?

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.