LFM2.5 8B-A1B on Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB)

Can the Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB) run LFM2.5 8B-A1B?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q4_K_M it needs about 24.3 GB of 230 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 39.6 tok/s.

Best quant: Q4_K_M
Generation speed: 39.6 tok/s
Prompt processing: 233 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 4.4 s
Largest safe context: 125K

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

On Linux

Ollama

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp (ggml), MLX (Apple silicon, preview)

One command with Ollama’s own build of this model.
Serves an OpenAI-compatible API that other apps and coding tools can use.

ollama run lfm2.5:8b-a1b-q4_K_M

llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
KoboldCpp

Want an agent? LFM2.5 8B-A1B supports tool use, so you can pair a llama.cpp or MLX LM server with one of these. Apps that run on this computer come first.

Coding agents

Personal assistants

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 LFM2.5 8B-A1B

Recommended for the Intel Xeon Silver (4100 to 4300 series) NAS (256 GB): Q4_K_M. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quickest · Ollama

One command downloads a ready-to-run version and starts a chat.

Get Ollama at ollama.com/download (opens in a new tab) · model page (opens in a new tab)

ollama run lfm2.5:8b-a1b-q4_K_M

Quantized files · GGUF

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

Download the Q4_K_M file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-8B-A1B (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Official repo · GitHub

Reference code, inference scripts and docs from Liquid AI. The weights themselves download from Hugging Face.

github.com/Liquid4All/cookbook (opens in a new tab)

Liquid AI’s official cookbook for running LFM models.

git clone https://github.com/Liquid4All/cookbook

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

How it’s rated

Quality 49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q4_K_M, 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 great: 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.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	22.2 / 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
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	14.9 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	2.4 / 15
Match score	64.6 / 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
`Q2_K`	22.5 GB	230 GB	60.8 tok/s	Runs great	36Basic quality (D) · 36 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	23.3 GB	230 GB	49.6 tok/s	Runs great	43Fair quality (C) · 43 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	24.3 GB	230 GB	39.6 tok/s	Runs great	49Fair quality (C) · 49 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	25.1 GB	230 GB	33.4 tok/s	Runs great	50Fair quality (C) · 50 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 63/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	26.1 GB	230 GB	28.5 tok/s	Runs well	51Fair quality (C) · 51 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 63/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	28.1 GB	230 GB	21.4 tok/s	Runs well	52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	36.1 GB	230 GB	10.3 tok/s	Runs well	52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 59/100 (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.

Other hardware that runs it

52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX F16 · 93.7 tok/s · Runs great
52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Q8_0 · 123 tok/s · Runs great
52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Pro (24 GB) Q8_0 · 71.4 tok/s · Runs great
52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 F16 · 101 tok/s · Runs great
52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB Q8_0 · 82.4 tok/s · Runs great
52Fair quality (C) · 52 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Q8_0 · 136 tok/s · 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.