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Orin Nano 8 8GB

17 models / sorted by best_quality

Quality Fastest Least mem Newest
Runs comfortably
Ornith-1.5-9B Q4_K_M
5.8GB 4k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 5 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 6/8GB
Qwen3 8B Q4_K_M
5.2GB 5k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 5 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 5/8GB
Qwen3 4B Q4_K_M
2.6GB 19k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 10 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 3/8GB
Phi-4 Mini Q4_K_M
2.5GB 27k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 11 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 3/8GB
Phi-4 Mini Q8_0
4.1GB 19k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 8 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 4/8GB
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Q4_K_M
4.5GB 7k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 6 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 5/8GB
Gemma 3 4B Q4_K_M
3.0GB 16k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 9 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 3/8GB
Gemma 3 4B Q8_0
5.0GB 10k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 6 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 5/8GB
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Q4_K_M
2.0GB 24k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 13 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 2/8GB
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct Q8_0
3.5GB 18k cap
FIT Runs comfortably
SPEED 8 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 4/8GB
Runs tight
Qwen3.8-27B UD-IQ1_S Unsloth
6.2GB ctx headroom ~0
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 4 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 6/8GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q6_K
7.6GB ctx headroom ~0
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 4 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 8/8GB
Ornith-1.5-9B Q5_K_M
6.6GB 2k cap
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 4 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 7/8GB
Gemma 4 12B Q4_K_M
7.2GB 1k cap
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 4 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 7/8GB
Gemma 3 12B Q4_K_M
7.5GB 1k cap
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 4 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 8/8GB
Mistral Nemo 12B Q4_K_M
7.3GB 1k cap
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 4 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 7/8GB
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct Q8_0
8.0GB ctx headroom ~0
FIT Runs tight
SPEED 4 tok/s
ⓘ estimated
MEMORY 8/8GB

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