Can the Raspberry Pi 5 (8 GB) run TMax 2B?

Yes, it runs well

Runs well. At Q3_K_M it needs about 2.1 GB of 6.4 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 12.0 tok/s.

Best quant: Q3_K_M
Generation speed: 12.0 tok/s
Prompt processing: 47.9 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 21.4 s
Largest safe context: 256K

Best app to run it on the Raspberry Pi 5 (8 GB)

On Linux on ARM boards

Command line + local API · runs on llama.cpp, vLLM

Handy if you already work in Docker.

docker model run hf.co/allenai/tmax-2b

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 TMax 2B

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Ai2, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/allenai/tmax-2b (opens in a new tab)

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

How it’s rated

Quality 33Basic quality (D) · 33 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_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 Q3_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 Raspberry Pi 5 (8 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.	15.1 / 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.	8.2 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	7.7 / 15
Match score	56.0 / 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 Raspberry Pi 5 (8 GB)

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	2.0 GB	6.4 GB	15.3 tok/s	Runs well	28Basic quality (D) · 28 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`	2.1 GB	6.4 GB	12.0 tok/s	Runs well	33Basic quality (D) · 33 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_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)
`Q4_K_M`	2.4 GB	6.4 GB	9.3 tok/s	Slow	38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 57/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	2.5 GB	6.4 GB	7.7 tok/s	Slow	38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	2.8 GB	6.4 GB	6.5 tok/s	Slow	39Basic quality (D) · 39 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 58/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	3.2 GB	6.4 GB	4.7 tok/s	Slow	40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 59/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	All files (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	5.0 GB	6.4 GB	2.2 tok/s	Very slow	40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 61/100 (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

40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 F16 · 41.7 tok/s · Runs great
40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intel Arc B580 F16 · 53.4 tok/s · Runs great
40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB F16 · 55.1 tok/s · Runs great
40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER F16 · 77.2 tok/s · Runs great
40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT F16 · 84.4 tok/s · Runs great
40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 65/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB F16 · 44.1 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.