Moonlight 16B-A3B Instruct on Intel Xeon D-2700 series NAS (512 GB)

Can the Intel Xeon D-2700 series NAS (512 GB) run Moonlight 16B-A3B Instruct?

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At Q4_K_M it needs about 48.3 GB of 471 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 16.0 tok/s.

Best quant: Q4_K_M
Generation speed: 16.0 tok/s
Prompt processing: 116 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 8.8 s
Largest safe context: 8K

Download Moonlight 16B-A3B Instruct

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

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How it’s rated

Quality 43Fair quality (C) · 43 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 56/100 (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 well: How well it runs on the Intel Xeon D-2700 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.	19.7 / 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.	9.5 / 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	56.5 / 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 D-2700 series NAS (512 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	44.9 GB	471 GB	25.5 tok/s	Runs well	32Basic quality (D) · 32 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 53/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	46.4 GB	471 GB	20.4 tok/s	Runs well	38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 55/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	48.3 GB	471 GB	16.0 tok/s	Runs well	43Fair quality (C) · 43 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 56/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	49.9 GB	471 GB	13.3 tok/s	Runs well	44Fair quality (C) · 44 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 56/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	51.6 GB	471 GB	11.2 tok/s	Runs well	45Fair quality (C) · 45 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 55/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	55.5 GB	471 GB	8.3 tok/s	Slow	46Fair quality (C) · 46 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 55/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	70.5 GB	471 GB	3.9 tok/s	Slow	46Fair quality (C) · 46 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 53/100 (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

46Fair quality (C) · 46 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Q8_0 · 104 tok/s · Runs great
46Fair quality (C) · 46 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Q8_0 · 112 tok/s · Runs great
46Fair quality (C) · 46 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Q8_0 · 117 tok/s · Runs great
44Fair quality (C) · 44 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Q5_K_M · 113 tok/s · Runs great
44Fair quality (C) · 44 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Apple M4 Pro (24 GB) Q5_K_M · 62.2 tok/s · Runs great
44Fair quality (C) · 44 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 75/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB Q5_K_M · 72.6 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.