TMax 9B on Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS (16 GB)

Can the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS (16 GB) run TMax 9B?

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At Q4_K_M it needs about 7.1 GB of 9.1 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 13.7 tok/s.

Best quant: Q4_K_M
Generation speed: 13.7 tok/s
Prompt processing: 626 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 1.6 s
Largest safe context: 69K

Download TMax 9B

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Ai2, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/allenai/tmax-9b (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 70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q4_K_M, 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 well: How well it runs on the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS (16 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.	31.6 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of the NAS’s memory that models can use (the rest stays with the NAS system and its storage services); 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.	8.8 / 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 score	80.4 / 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 Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS (16 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	5.2 GB	9.1 GB	22.4 tok/s	Runs well	51Fair quality (C) · 51 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	6.0 GB	9.1 GB	17.7 tok/s	Runs well	62Good quality (B) · 62 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	7.1 GB	9.1 GB	13.7 tok/s	Runs well	70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	8.0 GB	9.1 GB	11.3 tok/s	Runs welltight fit	71Great quality (A) · 71 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	8.9 GB	9.1 GB	9.5 tok/s	Slowtight fit	73Great quality (A) · 73 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	11.1 GB	9.1 GB	5.9 tok/s	Slowfar over GPU memory limit	74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	19.5 GB	9.1 GB	—	Won't run	74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (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

74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Q8_0 · 46.9 tok/s · Runs great
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER Q8_0 · 51.4 tok/s · Runs great
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Q8_0 · 62.6 tok/s · Runs great
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Q8_0 · 67.0 tok/s · Runs great
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 88/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Q8_0 · 38.5 tok/s · Runs great
74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 F16 · 57.7 tok/s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does TMax 9B need on the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS 16GB?

At Q4_K_M it needs about 7.1 GB. The Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS 16GB has 9.1 GB usable.

How fast is TMax 9B on the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS 16GB?

About 13.7 tok/s at Q4_K_M, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of TMax 9B should I use on the Intel Core Ultra 5 225H NAS 16GB?

Q4_K_M. 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.