Llama 3.1 8B Instruct › NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct on the NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti Laptop

Best measured: 4.3 tokens/s generation and 290 tokens/s prompt processing (Q4_K_M, llamafile).

Every run

Quant	Backend	Generate tok/s	Prompt tok/s	Test	Build / by / notes	Source
Q4_K_M	llamafile	4.3	290	LocalScore avg	LocalScore rank 184/422; model file is larger than this card's VRAM, so part of it ran on the CPU/system RAM	LocalScore (localscore.ai)

tg128 = generating 128 tokens; pp512 = reading a 512-token prompt (llama-bench). LocalScore averages several prompt and output lengths, so its numbers run lower than tg128.

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Doesn't fit in this card's VRAM

Part of this model ran on the CPU here. A rented 48-80 GB GPU keeps it all in VRAM.

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