SmolVLM 500M Instruct on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 (192 GB)

Can the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 (192 GB) run SmolVLM 500M Instruct?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At F16 it needs about 14.7 GB of 159 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 133 tok/s.

Best quant: F16
Generation speed: 133 tok/s
Prompt processing: 74,643 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 8K

Best app to run it on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 (192 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 ggml-org/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-GGUF:F16

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 ggml-org/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-GGUF:F16

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 SmolVLM 500M Instruct

Recommended for the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 (192 GB): 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/ggml-org/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/ggml-org/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-GGUF:F16

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-500M-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 10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (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 Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 (192 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.	4.5 / 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.	2.1 / 15
Match score	46.6 / 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 AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 (192 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	13.9 GB	159 GB	929 tok/s	Runs great	7Basic quality (D) · 7 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 45/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	13.9 GB	159 GB	731 tok/s	Runs great	8Basic quality (D) · 8 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 45/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	14.0 GB	159 GB	566 tok/s	Runs great	9Basic quality (D) · 9 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	14.0 GB	159 GB	467 tok/s	Runs great	9Basic quality (D) · 9 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	14.1 GB	159 GB	393 tok/s	Runs great	9Basic quality (D) · 9 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	14.2 GB	159 GB	288 tok/s	Runs great	10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	14.7 GB	159 GB	133 tok/s	Runs great	10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (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

10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 51/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 F16 · 154 tok/s · Runs great
10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 50/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 (16 GB) F16 · 58.4 tok/s · Runs great
10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 49/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M1 (16 GB) Q8_0 · 72.0 tok/s · Runs great
10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 49/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intel Arc B580 F16 · 197 tok/s · Runs great
10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 49/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB F16 · 203 tok/s · Runs great
10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 49/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER F16 · 285 tok/s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does SmolVLM 500M Instruct need on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 192GB?

At F16 it needs about 14.7 GB. The AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 192GB has 159 GB usable.

How fast is SmolVLM 500M Instruct on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 192GB?

About 133 tok/s at F16, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of SmolVLM 500M Instruct should I use on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 192GB?

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.