SmolLM3 3B on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (64 GB)

Can the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (64 GB) run SmolLM3 3B?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q8_0 it needs about 8.3 GB of 48.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 44.7 tok/s.

Best quant: Q8_0
Generation speed: 44.7 tok/s
Prompt processing: 11,957 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 64K

Best app to run it on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (64 GB)

On Windows

Lemonade

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, ONNX Runtime GenAI (Ryzen AI NPU)

Built for Ryzen AI and Strix Halo, including NPU + iGPU modes on Windows.

lemonade pull unsloth/SmolLM3-3B-GGUF:Q8_0

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)

Built for Ryzen AI and Strix Halo, including NPU + iGPU modes on Windows.

lemonade pull unsloth/SmolLM3-3B-GGUF:Q8_0

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 SmolLM3 3B

Recommended for the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (64 GB): Q8_0. 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 Q8_0 file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/SmolLM3-3B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/SmolLM3-3B-GGUF:Q8_0

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM3-3B (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

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

github.com/huggingface/smollm (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/huggingface/smollm

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

How it’s rated

Quality 42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (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 AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (64 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.	18.9 / 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.	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.	4.0 / 15
Match score	62.9 / 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 Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (64 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	6.3 GB	48.0 GB	144 tok/s	Runs great	29Basic quality (D) · 29 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 56/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	6.6 GB	48.0 GB	114 tok/s	Runs great	35Basic quality (D) · 35 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 59/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	6.9 GB	48.0 GB	87.9 tok/s	Runs great	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.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	7.2 GB	48.0 GB	72.6 tok/s	Runs great	40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	7.6 GB	48.0 GB	61.0 tok/s	Runs great	41Fair quality (C) · 41 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	8.3 GB	48.0 GB	44.7 tok/s	Runs great	42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	11.2 GB	48.0 GB	20.6 tok/s	Runs well	42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (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

42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER F16 · 47.1 tok/s · Runs great
42Fair quality (C) · 42 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 4060 Q8_0 · 55.2 tok/s · Runs great
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT F16 · 51.5 tok/s · Runs great
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER F16 · 62.8 tok/s · Runs great
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER F16 · 68.8 tok/s · Runs great
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB F16 · 41.9 tok/s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does SmolLM3 3B need on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 64GB?

At Q8_0 it needs about 8.3 GB. The AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 64GB has 48.0 GB usable.

How fast is SmolLM3 3B on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 64GB?

About 44.7 tok/s at Q8_0, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of SmolLM3 3B should I use on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 64GB?

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.