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Can the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 run zerank-1 small?

80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At Q8_0 it needs about 3.1 GB of 8.0 GB usable and makes one decision in about 183 ms.

Best quant
Q8_0
Time per decision
183 ms
Decisions per second
5.5/s
Input assumed
512 tokens
Returns
Probability or score

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000

On Windows

Sentence Transformers

Python library · runs on PyTorch (Transformers)

  • A few lines of Python with Transformers or Sentence Transformers; easiest for scripts and notebooks.
python -c "from sentence_transformers import CrossEncoder; print(CrossEncoder('zeroentropy/zerank-1-small-reranker').predict([('query', 'document')]))"
  • vLLM Serves the scoring head directly (rerank, classify or reward) with batching.

On Linux

vLLM

Inference server · runs on vLLM

  • Serves the scoring head directly (rerank, classify or reward) with batching.
vllm serve zeroentropy/zerank-1-small-reranker
  • Sentence Transformers A few lines of Python with Transformers or Sentence Transformers; easiest for scripts and notebooks.

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 zerank-1 small

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from ZeroEntropy, for Transformers, Sentence Transformers, Text Embeddings Inference, Infinity or vLLM.

huggingface.co/zeroentropy/zerank-1-small-reranker (opens in a new tab)

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Links checked 5 hours ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q8_0, 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 NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000: 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.

PrecisionEditorial precision tier from the model’s published benchmarks, scaled by the quantization or precision used.36.0 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.25.0 / 25
SpeedTime for one decision against a 100 ms target: reading the input plus any tokens the model writes.11.1 / 15
ClarityHow easy the answer is to use in code: a probability or score earns the most, written feedback before a score the least.15.0 / 15
Match score87.1 / 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 Quadro RTX 4000

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q4_K_M 2.3 GB 8.0 GB 180 ms Runs well 76Great quality (A) · 76 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 2.5 GB 8.0 GB 180 ms Runs well 77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 2.6 GB 8.0 GB 181 ms Runs well 79Great quality (A) · 79 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 3.1 GB 8.0 GB 183 ms Runs well 80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 87/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
F16 4.7 GB 8.0 GB 191 ms Runs well 80Great quality (A) · 80 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Times are for one request with a 512-token input and about 1 tokens written. Batching servers process many requests at once.

Other hardware that runs it

Quick answers

How much memory does zerank-1 small need on the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8GB?

At Q8_0 it needs about 3.1 GB. The NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8GB has 8.0 GB usable.

How fast is zerank-1 small on the NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 8GB?

It makes one decision in about 183 ms at Q8_0, an estimate from the hardware and the size of the model.

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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