Falcon3 7B on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 24GB VRAM

✅ Runs comfortably — Falcon3 7B @ Q8_0
Falcon3 7B 7B at Q8_0 needs ~8.8 GB (weights 7.4 GB + KV 896 MB + overhead 512 MB @ 8K ctx) of your 21.6 GB usable VRAM — plenty of headroom. Expect ~45–75 tok/s (very fast).
context @ Q8_0: comfortable to 32K
quantneedsspeed
✓ Q8_08.8 GB~45–75 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q6_K7.1 GB~55–95 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q5_K_M6.3 GB~65–110 tok/s (very fast)
✓ Q4_K_M5.6 GB~70–120 tok/s (very fast)
$runlocal install falcon3:7b
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Falcon3 7B: Runs comfortably
for your own README — links back here

Same model, other machines: Apple M1 · Apple M1 Pro · Apple M2 · Apple M3 Pro · Apple M2 Pro · Apple M4 Pro

Also runs on a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX: DeepSeek-R1 (distill) · Qwen3 · Qwen2.5 · Gemma 3 · Mistral Small 3

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