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Can I run Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B on Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB)?

Compatibility verdict VRAM threshold engine
No, not enough memory would not load

No. Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B needs ~22.4 GB even at Q4_K_M, but Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) only has ~15 GB usable.

Needs ~22.4 GB Device usable ~15 GB

Needs ~22.4 GB even at Q4_K_M, but only ~15 GB is usable.

That figure is at a 4k context and moves about ±15% as context length changes.

The gap is about 7.4 GB: Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B needs roughly 22.4 GB at Q4_K_M and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) leaves only about 15 GB usable for a model. The lightest tracked hardware that runs Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B is the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB) at 24 GB. See Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B on Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB).

Q4_K_M needed
~22.4 GB
Usable on device
~15 GB
Device memory
16 GB
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Which quant fits

Quant ladder vs ~15 GB usable
Q2_K
~16.9 GB
Q3_K_M
~19.3 GB
Q4_K_M
~22.4 GB
Q5_K_M
~27.1 GB
Q6_K
~30.9 GB
Q8_0
~37.4 GB
FP16
~74.2 GB
The line marks Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB)'s ~15 GB budget; rungs past it are too large.
Model Ornith
Parameters
35B (MoE, 3B active)
Q4_K_M size
20.22 GB
Q8_0 size
35.21 GB
Context
256k
Ollama tag
ornith-1.5:35b
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Device Windows
Memory
16 GB vram
Usable for weights
~15 GB
Power draw
~320 W
Best runtime
vLLM (Linux) / Ollama (CUDA)
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FAQ

Can Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) run Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B?

No. Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B needs ~22.4 GB even at Q4_K_M, but Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) only has ~15 GB usable.

How much memory does Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B need?

Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB) does not have enough memory. At Q4_K_M the weights are ~20.22 GB; with KV cache and runtime overhead, budget ~22.4 GB at a 4k context. It is a Mixture-of-Experts model (35B total / 3B active), so all experts must stay in memory; memory tracks total params, not active params.

What is the best tool to run Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B on Windows?

LM Studio for a simple setup; Ollama (CUDA) for the most speed. AMD GPUs run via Vulkan/ROCm at roughly half CUDA throughput. NVIDIA is the smooth path on Windows.

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Weights are measured from GGUF files; KV cache and overhead are computed, so totals can vary ~15% with context and runtime. Any tok/s is a bandwidth estimate. See methodology.