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Can the NVIDIA RTX A5500 run OLMoE 1B-7B Instruct?

26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At F16 it needs about 16.2 GB of 24.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 97.5 tok/s.

Best quant
F16
Generation speed
97.5 tok/s
Prompt processing
18,886 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
4K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA RTX A5500

On Windows

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

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

Open OLMoE 1B-7B Instruct 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 OLMoE 1B-7B Instruct 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 OLMoE 1B-7B Instruct

Recommended for the NVIDIA RTX A5500: 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 file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/allenai/OLMoE-1B-7B-0125-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/allenai/OLMoE-1B-7B-0125-Instruct-GGUF:F16

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Ai2, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/allenai/OLMoE-1B-7B-0125-Instruct (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Ai2. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/allenai/OLMoE (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/allenai/OLMoE

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

How it’s rated

Quality 26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (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 NVIDIA RTX A5500: 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.11.7 / 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 score66.7 / 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 RTX A5500

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 5.1 GB 24.0 GB 252 tok/s Runs great 18Basic quality (D) · 18 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 53/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 5.7 GB 24.0 GB 232 tok/s Runs great 21Basic quality (D) · 21 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 55/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 6.6 GB 24.0 GB 211 tok/s Runs great 24Basic quality (D) · 24 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 57/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 7.3 GB 24.0 GB 193 tok/s Runs great 25Basic quality (D) · 25 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 8.0 GB 24.0 GB 179 tok/s Runs great 25Basic quality (D) · 25 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 59/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 9.7 GB 24.0 GB 154 tok/s Runs great 26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 16.2 GB 24.0 GB 97.5 tok/s Runs great 26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (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 4K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Quick answers

How much memory does OLMoE 1B-7B Instruct need on the NVIDIA RTX A5500 24GB?

At F16 it needs about 16.2 GB. The NVIDIA RTX A5500 24GB has 24.0 GB usable.

How fast is OLMoE 1B-7B Instruct on the NVIDIA RTX A5500 24GB?

About 97.5 tok/s at F16, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of OLMoE 1B-7B Instruct should I use on the NVIDIA RTX A5500 24GB?

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.

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