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Can I run SmolLM2 1.7B on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB)?
Yes. SmolLM2 1.7B runs on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB) at Q4_K_M (~2.2 GB of ~23 GB usable).
Runs at Q4_K_M using ~2.2 GB of ~23 GB usable. You have room for FP16 for higher quality.
That figure is at a 4k context and moves about ±15% as context length changes. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB) leaves ~20.8 GB of headroom, room to step up to FP16 for higher quality.
- Q4_K_M needed
- ~2.2 GB
- Usable on device
- ~23 GB
- Device memory
- 24 GB
- Best quant
- Q4_K_M
Which quant fits
Running cost · estimate
- Power draw
- ~355 W
- Electricity / 1M tokens
- ~$0.03
- Pays for itself after
- ~2,126M tok
At ~$0.15/kWh and the estimated ~589 tok/s, a million generated tokens costs about $0.03 in electricity. Versus a hosted API at ~$0.5 per million tokens, the ~$999 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB) pays for itself after roughly 2,126 million tokens, so local hardware is mostly a fixed cost, not a per-token one. TDP is the peak draw, so this is an upper bound. Assumptions.
Run it
Pick your tool. All 3 load the same Q4_K_M weights.
ollama run smollm2:1.7b llama-cli -hf bartowski/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M lms get bartowski/SmolLM2-1.7B-Instruct-GGUF - Parameters
- 1.7B
- Q4_K_M size
- 1.06 GB
- Q8_0 size
- 1.82 GB
- Context
- 8k
- Ollama tag
- smollm2:1.7b
- Memory
- 24 GB vram
- Usable for weights
- ~23 GB
- Power draw
- ~355 W
- Best runtime
- Ollama (ROCm) / llama.cpp ROCm (Linux)
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FAQ
Can AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB) run SmolLM2 1.7B?
Yes. SmolLM2 1.7B runs on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB) at Q4_K_M (~2.2 GB of ~23 GB usable).
How much memory does SmolLM2 1.7B need?
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX (24GB) has room to spare. At Q4_K_M the weights are ~1.06 GB; with KV cache and runtime overhead, budget ~2.2 GB at a 4k context.
What is the best tool to run SmolLM2 1.7B 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.