Falcon3 Mamba 7B Instruct on Raspberry Pi 5 (4 GB)

Can the Raspberry Pi 5 (4 GB) run Falcon3 Mamba 7B Instruct?

No, it doesn’t fit

No. Falcon3 Mamba 7B Instruct needs about 3.8 GB even at Q2_K; the Raspberry Pi 5 (4 GB) has 2.8 GB usable.

Download Falcon3 Mamba 7B Instruct

Recommended: Q2_K. 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 Q2_K file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-Mamba-7B-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-Mamba-7B-Instruct-GGUF:Q2_K

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/tiiuae/Falcon3-Mamba-7B-Instruct (opens in a new tab)

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Links checked 1 day ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 3/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q2_K, 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 Won't run: How well it runs on the Raspberry Pi 5 (4 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.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	3.6 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when the model fits in the share of unified memory the GPU can use; fewer when it goes past that limit.	0.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	0.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	0.0 / 15
Match score	3.6 / 100

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

It doesn’t fit, so only a reduced share of the quality points counts and fit, speed and memory use score zero.

Every quantization on the Raspberry Pi 5 (4 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	3.8 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 3/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	4.4 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	31Basic quality (D) · 31 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 4/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	5.3 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	36Basic quality (D) · 36 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 4/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	6.0 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	36Basic quality (D) · 36 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 4/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	6.8 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	37Basic quality (D) · 37 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 5/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	8.6 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 5/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	15.4 GB	2.8 GB	—	Won't run	38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 5/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	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.

Hardware that can run it

38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER Q8_0 · 43.3 tok/s · Runs great
36Basic quality (D) · 36 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Q4_K_M · 45.9 tok/s · Runs great
37Basic quality (D) · 37 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intel Arc B580 Q6_K · 40.8 tok/s · Runs great
37Basic quality (D) · 37 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB Q6_K · 42.2 tok/s · Runs great
38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Q8_0 · 47.4 tok/s · Runs great
38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 70/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Q8_0 · 57.8 tok/s · Runs great

Models that do run on the Raspberry Pi 5 (4 GB)

53Fair quality (C) · 53 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 71/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LFM3 1.7B Q4_K_M · 10.1 tok/s
30Basic quality (D) · 30 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Unlimited OCR 2 (3B-A0.6B) Q2_K · 41.6 tok/s
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. LFM3-VL 2B Q3_K_M · 11.8 tok/s
42Fair quality (C) · 42 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. MiniCPM5 2B Q2_K · 11.4 tok/s
28Basic quality (D) · 28 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Unlimited OCR (3B-A0.6B) Q2_K · 41.6 tok/s

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.