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Can I run Sarvam-30B on Generic Android Phone (8GB RAM)?
No. Sarvam-30B needs ~21.7 GB even at Q4_K_M, but Generic Android Phone (8GB RAM) only has ~4.5 GB usable.
Needs ~21.7 GB even at Q4_K_M, but only ~4.5 GB is usable.
That figure is at a 4k context and moves about ±15% as context length changes.
The gap is about 17.2 GB: Sarvam-30B needs roughly 21.7 GB at Q4_K_M and Generic Android Phone (8GB RAM) leaves only about 4.5 GB usable for a model. The lightest tracked hardware that runs Sarvam-30B is the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB) at 24 GB. See Sarvam-30B on Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 (24GB).
- Q4_K_M needed
- ~21.7 GB
- Usable on device
- ~4.5 GB
- Device memory
- 8 GB
Which quant fits
How to run it
On Android use PocketPal AI (Polished app, download GGUF and run offline.).
- Parameters
- 30B (MoE, 2.4B active)
- Q4_K_M size
- 19.6 GB
- Context
- 64k
- Memory
- 8 GB ram
- Usable for weights
- ~4.5 GB
- Best runtime
- llama.cpp (PocketPal or SmolChat)
What you can run instead
Run Sarvam-30B on other hardware
FAQ
Can Generic Android Phone (8GB RAM) run Sarvam-30B?
No. Sarvam-30B needs ~21.7 GB even at Q4_K_M, but Generic Android Phone (8GB RAM) only has ~4.5 GB usable.
How much memory does Sarvam-30B need?
Generic Android Phone (8GB RAM) does not have enough memory. At Q4_K_M the weights are ~19.6 GB; with KV cache and runtime overhead, budget ~21.7 GB at a 4k context. It is a Mixture-of-Experts model (30B total / 2.4B active), so all experts must stay in memory; memory tracks total params, not active params.
What is the best tool to run Sarvam-30B on Android?
On Android, PocketPal AI (Polished app, download GGUF and run offline.) is the go-to option. NPU acceleration is limited and chip-specific; most apps run on CPU. Expect 1B-4B class.
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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.