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Can the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB run Apriel 1.5 15B Thinker?

61 ptsGood (B) · 61 of 100 points: Model quality 27.2/45, Memory fit 10.0/25, Speed 9.6/15, Memory use 15.0/15

Yes, with part of the model in system RAM

Runs with offload. At Q3_K_M it needs about 9.9 GB of 8.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 16.2 tok/s.

Best quant
Q3_K_M
Generation speed
16.2 tok/s
Prompt processing
1,748 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.6 s
Largest safe context
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Download Apriel 1.5 15B Thinker

Recommended for the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB: Q3_K_M. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the Q3_K_M file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/unsloth/Apriel-1.5-15b-Thinker-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Apriel-1.5-15b-Thinker-GGUF:Q3_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from ServiceNow, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/ServiceNow-AI/Apriel-1.5-15b-Thinker (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 7 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How the B grade is scored

Every result gets up to 100 points from four parts. The points decide the letter grade.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.27.2 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU or unified memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.10.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.9.6 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.15.0 / 15
Total61.8 / 10061 ptsGood (B) · 61 of 100 points: Model quality 27.2/45, Memory fit 10.0/25, Speed 9.6/15, Memory use 15.0/15

Grade scale: S 85+ · A 72+ · B 58+ · C 42+ · D 25+ · F under 25 points.

Every quantization on the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Fit Grade · points Download
Q2_K 8.6 GB 8.0 GB 28.9 tok/s Runs with offload 60 ptsGood (B) · 60 of 100 points: Model quality 22.7/45, Memory fit 10.0/25, Speed 12.8/15, Memory use 15.0/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 9.9 GB 8.0 GB 16.2 tok/s Runs with offload 61 ptsGood (B) · 61 of 100 points: Model quality 27.2/45, Memory fit 10.0/25, Speed 9.6/15, Memory use 15.0/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 11.7 GB 8.0 GB 10.0 tok/s Heavy offload 57 ptsUsable (C) · 57 of 100 points: Model quality 30.8/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 7.5/15, Memory use 15.0/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 13.2 GB 8.0 GB 7.4 tok/s Heavy offload 56 ptsUsable (C) · 56 of 100 points: Model quality 31.4/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 6.5/15, Memory use 15.0/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 14.8 GB 8.0 GB 5.7 tok/s Heavy offload 56 ptsUsable (C) · 56 of 100 points: Model quality 32.1/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 5.7/15, Memory use 15.0/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 18.4 GB 8.0 GB 3.8 tok/s Heavy offload 56 ptsUsable (C) · 56 of 100 points: Model quality 32.4/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 4.6/15, Memory use 15.0/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 32.3 GB 8.0 GB — Won't run 9 ptsWon't run (F) · 9 of 100 points: Model quality 9.7/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15 GGUF (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.