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Can the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB) run SmolVLM 500M Instruct?

10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At F16 it needs about 10.1 GB of 102 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 169 tok/s.

Best quant
F16
Generation speed
169 tok/s
Prompt processing
40,659 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.3 s
Largest safe context
8K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB)

On Linux

vLLM

Inference server · runs on vLLM

  • The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.
vllm serve HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct
  • LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
  • llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download SmolVLM 500M Instruct

Recommended for the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB): F16. 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 F16 file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/ggml-org/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/ggml-org/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-GGUF:F16

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

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

How it’s rated

Quality 10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at F16, 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 NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 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.4.5 / 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.25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.2.3 / 15
Match score46.8 / 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 NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (128 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 9.3 GB 102 GB 1,186 tok/s Runs great 7Basic quality (D) · 7 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 45/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 9.4 GB 102 GB 933 tok/s Runs great 8Basic quality (D) · 8 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 45/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 9.4 GB 102 GB 722 tok/s Runs great 9Basic quality (D) · 9 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 9.5 GB 102 GB 597 tok/s Runs great 9Basic quality (D) · 9 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 9.5 GB 102 GB 501 tok/s Runs great 9Basic quality (D) · 9 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF files (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 9.7 GB 102 GB 368 tok/s Runs great 10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 10.1 GB 102 GB 169 tok/s Runs great 10Basic quality (D) · 10 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 46/100 (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

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.

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