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Can I run SmolLM3 3B on Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra?
Yes. SmolLM3 3B runs on Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra at Q4_K_M (~3 GB of ~8.5 GB usable).
Runs at Q4_K_M using ~3 GB of ~8.5 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. Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra leaves ~5.5 GB of headroom, room to step up to FP16 for higher quality.
- Q4_K_M needed
- ~3 GB
- Usable on device
- ~8.5 GB
- Device memory
- 12 GB
- Best quant
- Q4_K_M
Which quant fits
Running cost · estimate
- Power draw
- ~8 W
- Electricity / 1M tokens
- ~$0.02
- Pays for itself after
- ~2,706M tok
At ~$0.15/kWh and the estimated ~22 tok/s, a million generated tokens costs about $0.02 in electricity. Versus a hosted API at ~$0.5 per million tokens, the ~$1,299 Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra pays for itself after roughly 2,706 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.
How to run it
On Android use PocketPal AI (Polished app, download GGUF and run offline.).
- Parameters
- 3B
- Q4_K_M size
- 1.78 GB
- Q8_0 size
- 3.05 GB
- Context
- 128k
- Memory
- 12 GB ram
- Usable for weights
- ~8.5 GB
- Power draw
- ~8 W
- Best runtime
- llama.cpp (PocketPal) or MLC-LLM (Adreno GPU path)
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Run SmolLM3 3B on other hardware
FAQ
Can Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra run SmolLM3 3B?
Yes. SmolLM3 3B runs on Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra at Q4_K_M (~3 GB of ~8.5 GB usable).
How much memory does SmolLM3 3B need?
Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra has room to spare. At Q4_K_M the weights are ~1.78 GB; with KV cache and runtime overhead, budget ~3 GB at a 4k context.
What is the best tool to run SmolLM3 3B 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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- androidauthority.com
- comparigon.com
- github.com/a-ghorbani
- github.com/google-ai-edge
- github.com/mlc-ai
- github.com/shubham0204
- github.com/Vali-98
- gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s24_ultra-12419.php
- gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s24_ultra-12771.php
- gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s24_ultra-review-2754p5.php
- huggingface.co/bartowski
- huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB
- huggingface.co/unsloth
- layla-network.ai
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.