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Can the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation run Trinity Mini (26B-A3B)?

65Good quality (B) · 65 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (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 23.4 GB of 24.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 85.0 tok/s.

Best quant
Q6_K
Generation speed
85.0 tok/s
Prompt processing
9,504 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
37K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation

On Windows

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

  • Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open Trinity Mini (26B-A3B) in LM Studio

  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
  • Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

On Linux

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

  • Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open Trinity Mini (26B-A3B) in LM Studio

  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
  • Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

Want an agent? Trinity Mini (26B-A3B) 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 Trinity Mini (26B-A3B)

Recommended for the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation: Q6_K. 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 Q6_K file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/arcee-ai/Trinity-Mini-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/arcee-ai/Trinity-Mini-GGUF:Q6_K

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/arcee-ai/Trinity-Mini (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 2 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 65Good quality (B) · 65 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (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 4500 Ada Generation: 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.29.4 / 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 score83.4 / 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 NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 12.4 GB 24.0 GB 152 tok/s Runs great 46Fair quality (C) · 46 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. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 14.8 GB 24.0 GB 131 tok/s Runs great 55Good quality (B) · 55 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 79/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 17.9 GB 24.0 GB 111 tok/s Runs great 62Good quality (B) · 62 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 20.5 GB 24.0 GB 96.6 tok/s Runs welltight fit 64Good quality (B) · 64 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 82/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 23.4 GB 24.0 GB 85.0 tok/s Runs welltight fit 65Good quality (B) · 65 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 83/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 29.7 GB 24.0 GB 36.6 tok/s Runs welloffloads to RAM 66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 54.2 GB 24.0 GB — Won't run 66Good quality (B) · 66 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 8/100 (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 Trinity Mini (26B-A3B) need on the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 24GB?

At Q6_K it needs about 23.4 GB. The NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 24GB has 24.0 GB usable.

How fast is Trinity Mini (26B-A3B) on the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 24GB?

About 85.0 tok/s at Q6_K, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Trinity Mini (26B-A3B) should I use on the NVIDIA RTX 4500 Ada Generation 24GB?

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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