MiniMax-M1 40K on Intel Xeon W-2100 series NAS (512 GB)

Can the Intel Xeon W-2100 series NAS (512 GB) run MiniMax-M1 40K?

Barely: it runs very slowly

Very slow. At Q5_K_M it needs about 362 GB of 471 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 1.2 tok/s.

Best quant: Q5_K_M
Generation speed: 1.2 tok/s
Prompt processing: 7.8 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 130.6 s
Largest safe context: 976K

Download MiniMax-M1 40K

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M1-40k (opens in a new tab)

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How it’s rated

Quality 79Great quality (A) · 79 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at Q5_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 Very slow: How well it runs on the Intel Xeon W-2100 series NAS (512 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.	35.8 / 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.	2.6 / 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
Match score	78.4 / 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 W-2100 series NAS (512 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	221 GB	471 GB	2.3 tok/s	Very slow	57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	262 GB	471 GB	1.8 tok/s	Very slow	68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	317 GB	471 GB	1.4 tok/s	Very slow	77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	362 GB	471 GB	1.2 tok/s	Very slow	79Great quality (A) · 79 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	413 GB	471 GB	1.0 tok/s	Very slowtight fit	81Great quality (A) · 81 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 77/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	522 GB	471 GB	—	Won't run	82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	951 GB	471 GB	—	Won't run	82Great quality (A) · 82 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 11/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	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

77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M3 Ultra (512 GB) Q4_K_M · 17.7 tok/s · Runs well
57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 62/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M3 Ultra (256 GB) Q2_K · 24.0 tok/s · Runs well (over GPU memory limit)
77Great quality (A) · 77 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 86/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M5 Ultra (512 GB) Q4_K_M · 25.3 tok/s · Runs well
68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 85/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Instinct MI350X Q3_K_M · 134 tok/s · Runs great
68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Instinct MI325X Q3_K_M · 113 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)
68Good quality (B) · 68 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 84/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip Q3_K_M · 137 tok/s · Runs well (tight fit)

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.