Qwen2 57B-A14B Instruct on BeagleBone AI-64 (4 GB)

Can the BeagleBone AI-64 (4 GB) run Qwen2 57B-A14B Instruct?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. Qwen2 57B-A14B Instruct needs about 24.3 GB even at Q2_K; the BeagleBone AI-64 (4 GB) has 2.8 GB usable.

Download Qwen2 57B-A14B Instruct

Quantized files · GGUF

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

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-57B-A14B-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/Qwen/Qwen2-57B-A14B-Instruct-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2-57B-A14B-Instruct (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 35Basic quality (D) · 35 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 4/100 (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 BeagleBone AI-64 (4 GB): 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.	4.7 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.	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	4.7 / 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 BeagleBone AI-64 (4 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	24.3 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	35Basic quality (D) · 35 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 4/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	29.4 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 5/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	36.3 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	47Fair quality (C) · 47 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	42.1 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	48Fair quality (C) · 48 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	48.4 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	62.1 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF · part 1 of 2 (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	116 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF · part 1 of 3 (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

50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Q8_0 · 61.3 tok/s · Runs great
47Fair quality (C) · 47 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Max (64 GB) Q4_K_M · 36.2 tok/s · Runs great
47Fair quality (C) · 47 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M1 Max (64 GB) Q4_K_M · 27.4 tok/s · Runs well
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Q3_K_M · 122 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
47Fair quality (C) · 47 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. Apple M4 Max (128 GB) Q4_K_M · 36.2 tok/s · Runs great
48Fair quality (C) · 48 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. Apple M2 Ultra (192 GB) Q5_K_M · 42.5 tok/s · Runs great

Models that do run on the BeagleBone AI-64 (4 GB)

57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM5 2B Q4_K_M · 1.7 tok/s
47Fair quality (C) · 47 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LFM3 1.7B Q3_K_M · 3.3 tok/s
46Fair quality (C) · 46 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. Spark-X2.6 4B Q2_K · 1.7 tok/s
39Basic quality (D) · 39 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM-OCR 1.0 1.3B Q4_K_M · 3.4 tok/s
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. TMax 4B Q2_K · 1.7 tok/s

Quick answers

How much memory does Qwen2 57B-A14B Instruct need on the BeagleBone AI-64 4GB?

Even at Q2_K it needs about 24.3 GB; the BeagleBone AI-64 4GB has 2.8 GB usable.

What can the BeagleBone AI-64 4GB run instead?

MiniCPM5 2B, LFM3 1.7B and Spark-X2.6 4B run best on it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

What hardware can run Qwen2 57B-A14B Instruct?

NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB, M4 Max 64GB and M1 Max 64GB 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.