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Can the NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Generation Laptop GPU run Stable Code Instruct 3B?

19Basic quality (D) · 19 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.

Yes, it runs well (tight fit)

Runs well (tight fit). At Q6_K it needs about 5.9 GB of 6.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 102 tok/s.

Best quant
Q6_K
Generation speed
102 tok/s
Prompt processing
2,366 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.4 s
Largest safe context
8K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Generation Laptop GPU

On Windows

Ollama

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp (ggml), MLX (Apple silicon, preview)

  • One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  • Serves an OpenAI-compatible API that other apps and coding tools can use.
ollama run stable-code:3b-instruct-q6_K
  • LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.

On Linux

Ollama

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp (ggml), MLX (Apple silicon, preview)

  • One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
  • Serves an OpenAI-compatible API that other apps and coding tools can use.
ollama run stable-code:3b-instruct-q6_K
  • LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.

Want an agent? Stable Code Instruct 3B supports tool use, so you can pair a llama.cpp or MLX LM server with one of these. Apps that run on this computer come first.

Coding agents

Personal assistants

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 Stable Code Instruct 3B

Recommended for the NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Generation Laptop GPU: Q6_K. 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 stable-code:3b-instruct-q6_K

Quantized files · GGUF

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

huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-code-instruct-3b (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/stabilityai/stable-code-instruct-3b

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-code-instruct-3b (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 19Basic quality (D) · 19 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.
How capable the model itself is at Q6_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 Runs welltight fit
How well it runs on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Generation 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.8.9 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.24.0 / 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.15.0 / 15
Match score62.9 / 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 NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Generation Laptop GPU

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 4.7 GB 6.0 GB 242 tok/s Runs great 14Basic quality (D) · 14 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.
Q3_K_M 5.0 GB 6.0 GB 190 tok/s Runs great 16Basic quality (D) · 16 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
Q4_K_M 5.3 GB 6.0 GB 147 tok/s Runs welltight fit 19Basic quality (D) · 19 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 5.6 GB 6.0 GB 122 tok/s Runs welltight fit 19Basic quality (D) · 19 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 5.9 GB 6.0 GB 102 tok/s Runs welltight fit 19Basic quality (D) · 19 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.
Q8_0 6.6 GB 6.0 GB 42.8 tok/s Runs welloffloads to RAM 20Basic quality (D) · 20 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.
F16 9.2 GB 6.0 GB 10.5 tok/s Slowheavy RAM offload 20Basic quality (D) · 20 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 35/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. 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

Quick answers

How much memory does Stable Code Instruct 3B need on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Generation Laptop GPU 6GB?

At Q6_K it needs about 5.9 GB. The NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Generation Laptop GPU 6GB has 6.0 GB usable.

How fast is Stable Code Instruct 3B on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Generation Laptop GPU 6GB?

About 102 tok/s at Q6_K, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Stable Code Instruct 3B should I use on the NVIDIA RTX PRO 500 Blackwell Generation Laptop GPU 6GB?

Q6_K. 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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