01.AI on NVIDIA Blackwell

Can I run Yi-1.5 34B on an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?

Not at Q4_K_M — it needs 22.2 GB against 14.2 GB available. You would need 2 of these cards.

Won't fit

22.2 GB of 14.2 GB · 156%
023 GB
Weights 19.5 GB
KV cache 1.9 GB
Runtime overhead 0.9 GB
Over the limit 8.0 GB

Short by 8.0 GB. You can run it with 35 of 60 layers on the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and the rest in system RAM, at roughly 4.13 tok/s — usable for batch work, painful for chat. A smaller quantisation or a shorter context is usually the better trade.

Generation4.13tok/s
Prompt processing287tok/s
Max context0tokens
KV per 1K tokens0GB

Every quantisation of Yi-1.5 34B on a RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

Highlighted row is the highest quality that still fits at 8K context.

QuantisationbpwWeights TotalVerdictMax ctxtok/s
FP16 / BF16 16.00 64.1 GB 66.8 GB Won't fit 0.76
INT8 / W8A8 8.50 33.8 GB 36.6 GB Won't fit 1.70
Q8_0 (GGUF) 8.50 33.8 GB 36.6 GB Won't fit 1.70
FP8 (E4M3) 8.00 32.0 GB 34.8 GB Won't fit 1.83
Q6_K 6.56 26.3 GB 29.0 GB Won't fit 2.47
Q5_K_M 5.67 22.7 GB 25.5 GB Won't fit 3.12
Q5_K_S 5.52 22.1 GB 24.9 GB Won't fit 3.28
Q4_K_M 4.85 19.5 GB 22.2 GB Won't fit 4.13
Q4_K_S 4.58 18.4 GB 21.2 GB Won't fit 4.61
Q4_0 4.55 18.3 GB 21.1 GB Won't fit 4.64
AWQ 4-bit 4.25 18.3 GB 21.0 GB Won't fit 4.65
GPTQ 4-bit 4.25 18.3 GB 21.0 GB Won't fit 4.65
MXFP4 4.25 18.3 GB 21.0 GB Won't fit 4.65
IQ4_XS 4.25 17.2 GB 19.9 GB Won't fit 5.43
Q3_K_M 3.91 15.8 GB 18.6 GB Won't fit 6.51
IQ3_M 3.70 15.0 GB 17.8 GB Won't fit 7.39
IQ3_XXS 3.06 12.5 GB 15.3 GB Won't fit 4K 14.6
Q2_K 2.63 10.8 GB 13.6 GB Fits, but tight 11K 24.9
IQ2_XXS 2.06 8.6 GB 11.4 GB Runs comfortably 20K 30.6
IQ1_M 1.75 7.4 GB 10.2 GB Runs comfortably 25K 35.0

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