Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

Can the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB run Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B?

67 pts

Barely: most of the model spills into system RAM

Heavy offload. At Q4_K_M it needs about 23.1 GB of 8.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 17.9 tok/s.

Best quant: Q4_K_M
Generation speed: 17.9 tok/s
Prompt processing: 5,482 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: —

Download Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B

Recommended for the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB: Q4_K_M. 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 Q4_K_M file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 7 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How the B grade is scored

Every result gets up to 100 points from four parts. The points decide the letter grade.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	38.5 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU or unified memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.	4.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	10.0 / 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
Total	67.5 / 100	67 ptsGood (B) · 67 of 100 points: Model quality 38.5/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 10.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15

Grade scale: S 85+ · A 72+ · B 58+ · C 42+ · D 25+ · F under 25 points.

Every quantization on the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Fit	Grade · points	Download
`Q2_K`	15.5 GB	8.0 GB	35.0 tok/s	Heavy offload	61 ptsGood (B) · 61 of 100 points: Model quality 28.4/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 14.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	18.8 GB	8.0 GB	25.0 tok/s	Heavy offload	64 ptsGood (B) · 64 of 100 points: Model quality 34.0/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 11.9/15, Memory use 15.0/15	GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	23.1 GB	8.0 GB	17.9 tok/s	Heavy offload	67 ptsGood (B) · 67 of 100 points: Model quality 38.5/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 10.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	26.7 GB	8.0 GB	14.1 tok/s	Heavy offload	67 ptsGood (B) · 67 of 100 points: Model quality 39.3/45, Memory fit 4.0/25, Speed 8.9/15, Memory use 15.0/15	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	30.6 GB	8.0 GB	—	Won't run	12 ptsWon't run (F) · 12 of 100 points: Model quality 12.0/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	39.3 GB	8.0 GB	—	Won't run	12 ptsWon't run (F) · 12 of 100 points: Model quality 12.2/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	73.1 GB	8.0 GB	—	Won't run	12 ptsWon't run (F) · 12 of 100 points: Model quality 12.2/45, Memory fit 0.0/25, Speed 0.0/15, Memory use 0.0/15	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

95 ptsExcellent (S) · 95 of 100 points: Model quality 40.5/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell F16 · 86.0 tok/s
95 ptsExcellent (S) · 95 of 100 points: Model quality 40.1/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 Apple M1 Max (64 GB) Q6_K · 48.9 tok/s
95 ptsExcellent (S) · 95 of 100 points: Model quality 40.1/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 Apple M4 Max (64 GB) Q6_K · 66.7 tok/s
94 ptsExcellent (S) · 94 of 100 points: Model quality 39.3/45, Memory fit 25.0/25, Speed 14.9/15, Memory use 15.0/15 Apple M4 Pro (48 GB) Q5_K_M · 39.7 tok/s
94 ptsExcellent (S) · 94 of 100 points: Model quality 40.1/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Q6_K · 254 tok/s
92 ptsExcellent (S) · 92 of 100 points: Model quality 38.5/45, Memory fit 24.0/25, Speed 15.0/15, Memory use 15.0/15 AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Q4_K_M · 169 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.