Yi Coder 1.5B Chat on UDOO BOLT V8 (8 GB)

Can the UDOO BOLT V8 (8 GB) run Yi Coder 1.5B Chat?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q3_K_M it needs about 3.3 GB of 4.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 35.5 tok/s.

Best quant: Q3_K_M
Generation speed: 35.5 tok/s
Prompt processing: 943 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 1.1 s
Largest safe context: 11K

Best app to run it on the UDOO BOLT V8 (8 GB)

On Windows

Lemonade

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, ONNX Runtime GenAI (Ryzen AI NPU)

AMD’s own app: llama.cpp tuned for Radeon on Vulkan and ROCm.

lemonade pull bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF:Q3_K_M

LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
Ollama One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.

On Linux

Lemonade

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, ONNX Runtime GenAI (Ryzen AI NPU)

AMD’s own app: llama.cpp tuned for Radeon on Vulkan and ROCm.

lemonade pull bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF:Q3_K_M

LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
Ollama One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.

Want an agent? Yi Coder 1.5B Chat 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 Yi Coder 1.5B Chat

Recommended for the UDOO BOLT V8 (8 GB): Q3_K_M. 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 yi-coder:1.5b-chat-q3_K_M

Quantized files · GGUF

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

Download the Q3_K_M file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/bartowski/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat-GGUF:Q3_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from 01.AI, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/01-ai/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat (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 13Basic quality (D) · 13 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q3_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 great: How well it runs on the UDOO BOLT V8 (8 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.	6.0 / 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.	14.1 / 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	60.2 / 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 UDOO BOLT V8 (8 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	3.1 GB	4.0 GB	45.0 tok/s	Runs great	11Basic quality (D) · 11 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	3.3 GB	4.0 GB	35.5 tok/s	Runs great	13Basic quality (D) · 13 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	3.4 GB	4.0 GB	27.4 tok/s	Runs welltight fit	15Basic quality (D) · 15 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	3.6 GB	4.0 GB	22.7 tok/s	Runs welltight fit	15Basic quality (D) · 15 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 57/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	3.7 GB	4.0 GB	19.0 tok/s	Runs welltight fit	15Basic quality (D) · 15 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 56/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	4.1 GB	4.0 GB	11.9 tok/s	Runs wellover GPU memory limit	16Basic quality (D) · 16 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 40/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	5.5 GB	4.0 GB	—	Won't run	16Basic quality (D) · 16 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 2/100 (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

16Basic quality (D) · 16 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 F16 · 52.9 tok/s · Runs great
16Basic quality (D) · 16 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intel Arc B580 F16 · 67.8 tok/s · Runs great
16Basic quality (D) · 16 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB F16 · 70.1 tok/s · Runs great
16Basic quality (D) · 16 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER F16 · 98.1 tok/s · Runs great
16Basic quality (D) · 16 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 57/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 (16 GB) Q8_0 · 43.6 tok/s · Runs great
16Basic quality (D) · 16 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 56/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Pro (24 GB) F16 · 45.7 tok/s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does Yi Coder 1.5B Chat need on the UDOO BOLT V8 8GB?

At Q3_K_M it needs about 3.3 GB. The UDOO BOLT V8 8GB has 4.0 GB usable.

How fast is Yi Coder 1.5B Chat on the UDOO BOLT V8 8GB?

About 35.5 tok/s at Q3_K_M, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Yi Coder 1.5B Chat should I use on the UDOO BOLT V8 8GB?

Q3_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.