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Can I run SmolLM2 135M locally?

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Ollama weight files: Q5_K_M 0.11 GB (smollm2:135m-instruct-q5_K_M); Q8_0 0.14 GB (smollm2:135m-instruct-q8_0); FP16 0.27 GB (smollm2:135m); Q4_K_M 0.1 GB (smollm2:135m-instruct-q4_K_M).

Yes on 62 machines in this list. The smallest is M1 8GB: FP16, about 0.9 GB, roughly 201 tokens per second, via Ollama. ollama run smollm2:135m

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

Open SmolLM2 135M in the checker

Hardware that fits

HardwareRuntimeQuantMemoryFitSpeedCommand
M1 8GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~201 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M2 8GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~296 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M3 8GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~296 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 3060 Ti 8GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~996 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 3070 8GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~996 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 4060 8GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~604 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RX 7600 8GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~640 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 3080 10GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1689 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M1 16GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~201 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M2 16GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~296 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M3 16GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~296 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M4 16GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~356 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 3060 12GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~800 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 4070 12GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1120 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 5070 12GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1493 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 4060 Ti 16GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~640 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1493 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 4080 16GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1593 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 5080 16GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~2133 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RX 7800 XT 16GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1387 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RX 9070 XT 16GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1422 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M2 24GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~296 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M3 24GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~296 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M4 24GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~356 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 3090 24GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~2080 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 4090 24GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~2240 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RX 7900 XTX 24GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~2133 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M1 Pro 32GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~593 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M2 Pro 32GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~593 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M4 32GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~356 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M3 Pro 36GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~444 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
Mac Studio M4 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1215 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1363 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
RTX 5090 32GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~3982 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M4 Pro 48GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~809 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1618 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1819 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M1 Max 64GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1185 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M2 Max 64GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1185 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M3 Max 64GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1185 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M4 Max 64GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1618 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1618 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1819 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
DGX Spark 64GB (ASUS, Dell, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~758 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~2427 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~3556 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M3 Max 128GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1185 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M4 Max 128GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1618 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1618 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~1819 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~758 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
M2 Ultra 192GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~2370 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
2x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF0.7 GBfits in fast memory~2982 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~2427 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 256GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~3556 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~3556 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
2x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF0.7 GBfits in fast memory~1243 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF0.7 GBfits in fast memory~2631 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
2x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF0.7 GBfits in fast memory~5829 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GBOllamaFP160.9 GBfits in fast memory~2427 tok/sollama run smollm2:135m
4x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF0.7 GBfits in fast memory~1097 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
4x Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF0.7 GBfits in fast memory~5143 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052,node3:50052,node4:50052 -c 8192 # 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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