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Can I run nomic-embed-text v1.5 locally?

Nomic · 0.137B parameters · embedding.

Ollama weight files: FP16 0.27 GB (nomic-embed-text:latest).

Yes on 62 machines in this list. The smallest is M1 8GB: FP16, about 0.6 GB, via Ollama. ollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest

Setup on DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)

Open nomic-embed-text v1.5 in the checker

Hardware that fits

HardwareRuntimeQuantMemoryFitUseCommand
M1 8GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M2 8GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M3 8GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 3060 Ti 8GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 3070 8GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 4060 8GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RX 7600 8GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 3080 10GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M1 16GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M2 16GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M3 16GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M4 16GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 3060 12GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 4070 12GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 5070 12GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 4060 Ti 16GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 4080 16GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 5080 16GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RX 7800 XT 16GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RX 9070 XT 16GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M2 24GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M3 24GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M4 24GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 3090 24GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 4090 24GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RX 7900 XTX 24GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M1 Pro 32GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M2 Pro 32GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M4 32GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M3 Pro 36GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
Mac Studio M4 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
RTX 5090 32GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M4 Pro 48GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M1 Max 64GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M2 Max 64GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M3 Max 64GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M4 Max 64GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
DGX Spark 64GB (ASUS, Dell, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M3 Max 128GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M4 Max 128GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
M2 Ultra 192GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
2x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF0.5 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingllama-server -hf nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 2048 --embeddings # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 256GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
2x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF0.5 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingllama-server -hf nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 2048 --embeddings # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF0.5 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingllama-server -hf nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 2048 --embeddings # run rpc-server on each other node
2x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF0.5 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingllama-server -hf nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 2048 --embeddings # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GBOllamaFP160.6 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingollama pull nomic-embed-text:latest
4x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF0.5 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingllama-server -hf nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 2048 --embeddings # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF0.5 GBfits in fast memoryembeddingllama-server -hf nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 2048 --embeddings # run rpc-server on each other node

Estimates, not benchmarks. Model sizes are ollama.com download sizes; memory needed adds headroom for ~8k tokens of context; speeds are rough figures from memory bandwidth. Data updated 2026-10-18.

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