BART Large MNLI on Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB)

Can the Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB) run BART Large MNLI?

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At Q8_0 it needs about 1.1 GB of 230 GB usable and makes one decision in about 330 ms.

Best precision: Q8_0
Time per decision: 330 ms
Decisions per second: 3.0/s
Input assumed: 256 tokens
Returns: Probability or score

Best app to run it on the Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB)

On Linux

Infinity

Inference server · runs on PyTorch, ONNX, CTranslate2

Local API for rerankers and classifiers, including models TEI does not support.

infinity_emb v2 --model-id facebook/bart-large-mnli

How we choose: the files published for this model, which apps run in a container on a NAS without a graphics card (models run on its processor), and whether the model fits fully in the memory models can use. Details.

Download BART Large MNLI

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Meta, for Transformers, Sentence Transformers, Text Embeddings Inference, Infinity or vLLM.

huggingface.co/facebook/bart-large-mnli (opens in a new tab)

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Links checked 6 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q8_0, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs well: How well it runs on the Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB): speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

PrecisionEditorial precision tier from the model’s published benchmarks, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	25.2 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of the NAS’s memory that models can use (the rest stays with the NAS system and its storage services); fewer when it goes past that limit.	25.0 / 25
SpeedTime for one decision against a 100 ms target: reading the input plus any tokens the model writes.	8.3 / 15
ClarityHow easy the answer is to use in code: a probability or score earns the most, written feedback before a score the least.	15.0 / 15
Match score	73.5 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q8_0`	1.1 GB	230 GB	330 ms	Runs well	56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 73/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	1.5 GB	230 GB	379 ms	Runs well	56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Times are for one request with a 256-token input. Batching servers process many requests at once.

Other hardware that runs it

56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX F16 · 5.7 ms · Runs great
56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT F16 · 6.2 ms · Runs great
56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (128 GB) F16 · 7.6 ms · Runs great
56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M1 (16 GB) F16 · 85 ms · Runs great
56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M1 Max (64 GB) F16 · 24 ms · Runs great
56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M2 Ultra (192 GB) F16 · 12 ms · Runs great

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.