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Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 run MiniCPM4 8B?

54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q8_0 it needs about 10.7 GB of 24.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 76.9 tok/s.

Best quant
Q8_0
Generation speed
76.9 tok/s
Prompt processing
7,262 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
32K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090

On Windows

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

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

Open MiniCPM4 8B 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 MiniCPM4 8B 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 MiniCPM4 8B

Quantized files · GGUF

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

huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM4-8B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/openbmb/MiniCPM4-8B-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM4-8B (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

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

How it’s rated

Quality 54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q8_0, 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 GeForce RTX 4090: 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.24.3 / 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.10.3 / 15
Match score74.6 / 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 GeForce RTX 4090

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 5.3 GB 24.0 GB 248 tok/s Runs great 37Basic quality (D) · 37 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 6.1 GB 24.0 GB 195 tok/s Runs great 45Fair quality (C) · 45 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 7.1 GB 24.0 GB 151 tok/s Runs great 51Fair quality (C) · 51 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 7.9 GB 24.0 GB 125 tok/s Runs great 52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 8.8 GB 24.0 GB 105 tok/s Runs great 53Fair quality (C) · 53 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 10.7 GB 24.0 GB 76.9 tok/s Runs great 54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
F16 18.4 GB 24.0 GB 35.4 tok/s Runs great 54Fair quality (C) · 54 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (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.

Other hardware that runs it

Quick answers

How much memory does MiniCPM4 8B need on the RTX 4090 24GB?

At Q8_0 it needs about 10.7 GB. The RTX 4090 24GB has 24.0 GB usable.

How fast is MiniCPM4 8B on the RTX 4090 24GB?

About 76.9 tok/s at Q8_0, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of MiniCPM4 8B should I use on the RTX 4090 24GB?

Q8_0. 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.

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