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Can I run SmolLM2 360M locally?

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Ollama weight files: Q5_K_M 0.29 GB (smollm2:360m-instruct-q5_K_M); Q8_0 0.39 GB (smollm2:360m-instruct-q8_0); FP16 0.73 GB (smollm2:360m); Q4_K_M 0.27 GB (smollm2:360m-instruct-q4_K_M).

Yes on 62 machines in this list. The smallest is M1 8GB: FP16, about 1.3 GB, roughly 75 tokens per second, via Ollama. ollama run smollm2:360m

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

Open SmolLM2 360M in the checker

Hardware that fits

HardwareRuntimeQuantMemoryFitSpeedCommand
M1 8GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~75 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M2 8GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~110 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M3 8GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~110 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 3060 Ti 8GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~368 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 3070 8GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~368 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 4060 8GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~224 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RX 7600 8GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~237 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 3080 10GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~625 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M1 16GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~75 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M2 16GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~110 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M3 16GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~110 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M4 16GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~132 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 3060 12GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~296 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 4070 12GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~414 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 5070 12GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~552 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 4060 Ti 16GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~237 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~552 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 4080 16GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~589 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 5080 16GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~789 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RX 7800 XT 16GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~513 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RX 9070 XT 16GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~526 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M2 24GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~110 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M3 24GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~110 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M4 24GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~132 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 3090 24GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~769 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 4090 24GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~828 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RX 7900 XTX 24GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~789 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M1 Pro 32GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~219 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M2 Pro 32GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~219 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M4 32GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~132 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M3 Pro 36GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~164 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
Mac Studio M4 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~449 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
Mac Studio M5 Max (32c GPU) 36GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~504 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
RTX 5090 32GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~1473 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M4 Pro 48GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~299 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~598 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 48GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~673 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M1 Max 64GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~438 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M2 Max 64GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~438 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M3 Max 64GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~438 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M4 Max 64GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~598 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~598 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 64GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~673 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
DGX Spark 64GB (ASUS, Dell, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~280 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~898 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
Mac Studio M5 Ultra 96GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~1315 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M3 Max 128GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~438 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M4 Max 128GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~598 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
Mac Studio M4 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~598 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~673 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
DGX Spark 128GB (NVIDIA, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, HP, MSI, Acer, Gigabyte)OllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~280 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
M2 Ultra 192GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~877 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
2x Mac Studio M5 Max (40c GPU) 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF1 GBfits in fast memory~1071 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~898 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (64c GPU) 256GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~1315 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
Mac Studio M5 Ultra (80c GPU) 256GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~1315 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
2x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF1 GBfits in fast memory~446 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-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 GGUF1 GBfits in fast memory~945 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-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 GGUF1 GBfits in fast memory~2092 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-Instruct-GGUF:Q8_0 --rpc node2:50052 -c 8192 # run rpc-server on each other node
Mac Studio M3 Ultra (80c GPU) 512GBOllamaFP161.3 GBfits in fast memory~898 tok/sollama run smollm2:360m
4x DGX Spark 128GBllama.cppQ8_0 GGUF1 GBfits in fast memory~394 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-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 GGUF1 GBfits in fast memory~1846 tok/sllama-server -hf unsloth/SmolLM2-360M-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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