Stable Cascade on NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU

Can the NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU run Stable Cascade?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. Stable Cascade needs about 4.0 GB even at FP8; the NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU has 4.0 GB usable.

Download Stable Cascade

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Stability AI, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers, Diffusers or ComfyUI.

huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-cascade (opens in a new tab)

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Official repo · GitHub

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

github.com/Stability-AI/StableCascade (opens in a new tab)

git clone https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableCascade

Links checked 7 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at FP8, 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 NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU: 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.	6.9 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.	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	6.9 / 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 precision on the NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Memory mode	Runs	Quality	Download
`FP16`	5.8 GB	4.0 GB	—	—	Won't run	52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 7/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)
`FP8`	4.0 GB	4.0 GB	—	—	Won't run	50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 6/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Hardware that can run it

50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER FP8 · 8.5 s · Runs great
52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX FP16 · 5.6 s · Runs great
52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 FP16 · 9.4 s · Runs great
52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 76/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 FP16 · 5.0 s · Runs great
50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT FP8 · 6.0 s · Runs great
50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at FP8, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER FP8 · 7.2 s · Runs great

Models that do run on the NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU

77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 74/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX.2 [klein] 4B Q8 GGUF · 9.5 s
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Realistic Vision V5.1 FP16 · 7.6 s
40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. DreamShaper 8 FP16 · 7.6 s
50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at FP16, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. PixArt-Σ XL 1024 FP16 · 10 s
84Great quality (A) · 84 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4 GGUF, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. FLUX 3 Image Klein Q4 GGUF · 57 s

Quick answers

How much memory does Stable Cascade need on the NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU 4GB?

Even at FP8 it needs about 4.0 GB; the NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU 4GB has 4.0 GB usable.

What can the NVIDIA RTX A500 Laptop GPU 4GB run instead?

FLUX.2 [klein] 4B, Realistic Vision V5.1 and DreamShaper 8 run best on it; the page lists more, each with its speed.

What hardware can run Stable Cascade?

RTX 4070 SUPER 12GB, RX 7900 XTX 24GB and RTX 3090 24GB 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.