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Home/SmolVLM 500M Instruct/on RTX 2000 Ada Laptop 8GB

Can it run?

Can RTX 2000 Ada Laptop 8GB run SmolVLM 500M Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q6_K in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

196.2 tok/s

TTFT

987 ms

Safe context

40K

Memory

3.2 GB / 8.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights0.4 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom0.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well196.2 tok/s1435 ms80K
ChatCRuns well196.2 tok/s538 ms20K
CodingCRuns well196.2 tok/s987 ms40K
RAGCRuns well196.2 tok/s1794 ms80K
ReasoningCRuns well196.2 tok/s1166 ms40K

Quantization options

How SmolVLM 500M Instruct (0.5B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX 2000 Ada Laptop 8GB (8.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
0.2 GB
LowD30
Q3_K_S
3
0.2 GB
LowD30
NVFP4
4
0.3 GB
MediumD30
Q4_K_M
4
0.3 GB
MediumD30
Q5_K_M
5
0.4 GB
HighD31
Q6_K
6
0.4 GB
HighD31
Q8_0
8
0.5 GB
Very HighD31
F16Best for your GPU
16
1.0 GB
MaximumD32

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-ggml-org--smolvlm-500m-instruct-gguf
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