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Can I run Yi 1.5 34B on 32GB RAM Laptop (CPU/iGPU only)?
Yes. Yi 1.5 34B runs on 32GB RAM Laptop (CPU/iGPU only) at Q4_K_M (~21.4 GB of ~28 GB usable).
Runs at Q4_K_M using ~21.4 GB of ~28 GB usable.
That figure is at a 4k context and moves about ±15% as context length changes. 32GB RAM Laptop (CPU/iGPU only) leaves ~6.6 GB of headroom.
- Q4_K_M needed
- ~21.4 GB
- Usable on device
- ~28 GB
- Device memory
- 32 GB
- Best quant
- Q4_K_M
Which quant fits
Running cost · estimate
- Power draw
- ~28 W
- Electricity / 1M tokens
- ~$0.58
At ~$0.15/kWh and the estimated ~2 tok/s, a million generated tokens costs about $0.58 in electricity. TDP is the peak draw, so this is an upper bound. Assumptions.
Run it
Pick your tool. All 2 load the same Q4_K_M weights.
llama-cli -hf bartowski/Yi-1.5-34B-Chat-GGUF:Q4_K_M lms get bartowski/Yi-1.5-34B-Chat-GGUF How to run it
On Windows use LM Studio (Best GUI on Windows, auto-detects CUDA/Vulkan backends.).
- Parameters
- 34B
- Q4_K_M size
- 19.24 GB
- Q8_0 size
- 34.03 GB
- Context
- 32k
- Memory
- 32 GB ram
- Usable for weights
- ~28 GB
- Power draw
- ~28 W
- Best runtime
- Ollama (llama.cpp backend)
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FAQ
Can 32GB RAM Laptop (CPU/iGPU only) run Yi 1.5 34B?
Yes. Yi 1.5 34B runs on 32GB RAM Laptop (CPU/iGPU only) at Q4_K_M (~21.4 GB of ~28 GB usable).
How much memory does Yi 1.5 34B need?
32GB RAM Laptop (CPU/iGPU only) has room to spare. At Q4_K_M the weights are ~19.24 GB; with KV cache and runtime overhead, budget ~21.4 GB at a 4k context.
What is the best tool to run Yi 1.5 34B 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.