Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B: hardware requirements

Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B needs about 24 GB of memory at Q4_K_M quantization: a 22 GB download plus room for context and a runtime allowance. That fits a machine with 32GB RAM.

Parameters
36B
Tier
Needs a good desktop
Licence
See model card
Released
2026-08-18

This is a mixture-of-experts model. Only a fraction of its 36B parameters are used for each token, so it runs faster than its size suggests, but all of it still has to fit in memory. The speed is that of a small model; the memory requirement is that of a large one. More on this →

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Download sizes by quantization

Lower quantization means a smaller file and less memory, at some cost to quality. Q4_K_M is the usual starting point. What is this?

QuantDownloadRAM @ 4KRAM @ 32KSource
Q4_K_Mrecommended22 GB24 GB27 GBornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF
Q5_K_M25 GB28 GB31 GBornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF
Q6_K29 GB32 GB35 GBornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF
Q8_038 GB41 GB44 GBornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF
BF1672 GB76 GB78 GBornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF

Download sizes are measured from the published files named in the Source column. The RAM columns add the context cache, calculated from the model's configuration, and a runtime allowance of 10% of the download (at least 0.5GB, at most 3GB).

Other sizes of Ornith-1.5

Model card on HuggingFace →API specs & pricing →Verified 2026-10-28Listed for 120 days after release