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Can the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (32 GB) run Zamba2 7B Instruct?

36Basic quality (D) · 36 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At Q5_K_M it needs about 7.9 GB of 16.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 41.3 tok/s.

Best quant
Q5_K_M
Generation speed
41.3 tok/s
Prompt processing
2,817 tok/s
First token (1K prompt)
0.4 s
Largest safe context
4K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (32 GB)

On Linux

Docker Model Runner

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

  • Handy if you already work in Docker.
docker model run hf.co/Zyphra/Zamba2-7B-Instruct
  • vLLM For one person, llama.cpp-based apps are about as fast and use smaller GGUF files.
  • SGLang For one person, llama.cpp-based apps are about as fast and use smaller GGUF files.

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 Zamba2 7B Instruct

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/Zyphra/Zamba2-7B-Instruct (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 36Basic quality (D) · 36 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (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 Runs great
How well it runs on the NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU) (32 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.16.6 / 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.11.3 / 15
Match score67.9 / 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) (32 GB)

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q2_K 5.6 GB 16.0 GB 82.2 tok/s Runs great 26Basic quality (D) · 26 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q3_K_M 6.2 GB 16.0 GB 64.7 tok/s Runs great 31Basic quality (D) · 31 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 63/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q4_K_M 7.1 GB 16.0 GB 50.0 tok/s Runs great 36Basic quality (D) · 36 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 66/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q5_K_M 7.9 GB 16.0 GB 41.3 tok/s Runs great 36Basic quality (D) · 36 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q6_K 8.7 GB 16.0 GB 34.7 tok/s Runs great 37Basic quality (D) · 37 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 10.4 GB 16.0 GB 25.5 tok/s Runs well 38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. All files (opens in a new tab)
F16 17.4 GB 16.0 GB 10.0 tok/s Slowover GPU memory limit 38Basic quality (D) · 38 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 49/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 4K 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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