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All estimates are approximations based on mathematical models and public specifications. Actual performance may vary. Do not make purchasing decisions based solely on these estimates.

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Home/Llama 3.2 3B Instruct/on RTX A5500 24GB

Can it run?

Can RTX A5500 24GB run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q5_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

282.9 tok/s

TTFT

684 ms

Safe context

59K

Memory

6.6 GB / 24.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights2.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom2.4 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well282.9 tok/s995 ms115K
ChatCRuns well282.9 tok/s373 ms29K
CodingCRuns well282.9 tok/s684 ms59K
RAGCRuns well282.9 tok/s1244 ms115K
ReasoningCRuns well282.9 tok/s809 ms59K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (3B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX A5500 24GB (24.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
1.2 GB
LowD31
Q3_K_S
3
1.5 GB
LowD31
NVFP4
4
1.7 GB
MediumD31
Q4_K_M
4
1.8 GB
MediumD31
Q5_K_M
5
2.2 GB
HighD31
Q6_K
6
2.5 GB
HighD32
Q8_0
8
3.2 GB
Very HighD32
F16Best for your GPU
16
6.1 GB
MaximumD35

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-bartowski--llama-3-2-3b-instruct-gguf

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Llama 3.2 3B Instruct well

AppleMacBook Pro M4 Max 36GBBudget pick
C122 tok/s decode

~$2,499 MSRP

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