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Can the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE run SmolLM 135M Instruct?

2Basic quality (D) · 2 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 43/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At F16 it needs about 1.5 GB of 12.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 824 tok/s.

Best quant
F16
Generation speed
824 tok/s
Prompt processing
327,169 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
2K

Best app to run it on the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE

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 QuantFactory/SmolLM-135M-Instruct-GGUF:F16
  • LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  • Ollama One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.

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 QuantFactory/SmolLM-135M-Instruct-GGUF:F16
  • LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  • Ollama One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.

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 SmolLM 135M Instruct

Recommended for the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE: F16. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run smollm:135m-instruct-v0.2-fp16

Quantized files · GGUF

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

huggingface.co/QuantFactory/SmolLM-135M-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/QuantFactory/SmolLM-135M-Instruct-GGUF

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM-135M-Instruct (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

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

How it’s rated

Quality 2Basic quality (D) · 2 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 43/100 (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 AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE: 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.0.9 / 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.2.9 / 15
Match score43.8 / 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 9070 GRE

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 1.3 GB 12.0 GB 5,769 tok/s Runs great 1Basic quality (D) · 1 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 43/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 1.3 GB 12.0 GB 4,541 tok/s Runs great 1Basic quality (D) · 1 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 43/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 1.3 GB 12.0 GB 3,513 tok/s Runs great 1Basic quality (D) · 1 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 43/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 1.3 GB 12.0 GB 2,902 tok/s Runs great 1Basic quality (D) · 1 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 43/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 1.4 GB 12.0 GB 2,437 tok/s Runs great 1Basic quality (D) · 1 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 43/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 1.4 GB 12.0 GB 1,788 tok/s Runs great 2Basic quality (D) · 2 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 43/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 1.5 GB 12.0 GB 824 tok/s Runs great 2Basic quality (D) · 2 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 43/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 2K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Quick answers

How much memory does SmolLM 135M Instruct need on the RX 9070 GRE 12GB?

At F16 it needs about 1.5 GB. The RX 9070 GRE 12GB has 12.0 GB usable.

How fast is SmolLM 135M Instruct on the RX 9070 GRE 12GB?

About 824 tok/s at F16, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of SmolLM 135M Instruct should I use on the RX 9070 GRE 12GB?

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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