Makes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Removes host-memory offload, which is usually the single biggest latency and throughput win.
~$899 MSRP
LFM2 24B needs ~18.4 GB VRAM. Radeon PRO W7700 16GB has 16.0 GB. With NVFP4 quantization, expect ~16 tok/s.
Operating mode
Interactive favors responsiveness, while light API and scale-out lean harder on serving readiness. The fit stays the same, but the recommendation lens changes.
Current mode
Balanced
Balanced for general local use. Keeps the ranking neutral across personal and serving workflows.
Select quantization to explore
3.6 GB over capacity — needs offload or smaller quantization
Fit status
Too heavy
Decode
12.2 tok/s
TTFT
15826 ms
Safe context
4K
Memory
19.6 GB / 16.0 GB
Offload
20%
It fits through host-memory offload, and offload is the main reason performance drops.
CPU or host-memory offload is active
About 10% of the working set spills out of accelerator memory, which usually hurts latency and sustained decode throughput.
Very little memory headroom
You can run the model, but there is not much room left for longer context, bigger batches, extra apps, or future model updates.
Remove offload with more accelerator memory
Prioritize a GPU or unified-memory tier that fits the whole model natively. Removing offload usually helps more than small compute gains.
Buy headroom, not only minimum fit
A slightly larger memory tier gives you safer context growth and makes the recommendation more future-proof.
Increase host RAM if you keep offloading
This setup may need roughly 1.7 GB of extra host RAM just for the offloaded portion, before OS and other tools.
| Workload | Grade | Fit | Decode | TTFT | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat | A | Very compromised (needs ~1.9 GB host RAM) | 14.0 tok/s | 7538 ms | 4K |
| Coding | F | Too heavy | 12.2 tok/s | 15826 ms | 4K |
| Agentic Coding | F | Too heavy | 9.6 tok/s | 29478 ms | 4K |
| Reasoning | F | Too heavy | 12.2 tok/s | 18703 ms | 4K |
| RAG | F | Too heavy | 9.6 tok/s | 36848 ms | 4K |
Inference speed
Estimated decode speed (tokens/sec) for LFM2 24B at Q4_K_M across popular GPUs and Apple Silicon, using the fastest local runtime per device. Fastest is RTX 5090 32GB at ~88 tok/s. Speed is memory-bandwidth bound, so cards that fit the whole model in VRAM run far faster than ones that offload to system RAM.
| GPU / Mac | Memory | Quant | Speed (tok/s) | Fits? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32 GB | Q4_K_M | 88.2 | Fits | |
| 24 GB | Q4_K_M | 56.3 | Tight | |
RX 7900 XTX 24GB | 24 GB | Q4_K_M | 50.8 | Tight |
| 24 GB | Q4_K_M | 48.1 | Tight | |
Mac Studio M3 Ultra 256GB | 256 GB | Q4_K_M | 40.9 | Fits |
MacBook Pro M4 Max 128GB | 128 GB | Q4_K_M | 36.8 | Fits |
MacBook Pro M4 Max 64GB | 64 GB | Q4_K_M | 36.8 | Fits |
Mac Studio M2 Ultra 128GB | 128 GB | Q4_K_M | 34.1 | Fits |
Mac Studio M1 Ultra 128GB | 128 GB | Q4_K_M | 32.3 | Fits |
MacBook Pro M4 Pro 48GB | 48 GB | Q4_K_M | 23.2 | Fits |
| 16 GB | Q4_K_M | 21.3 | Too big | |
MacBook Pro M3 Max 64GB | 64 GB | Q4_K_M | 17.6 | Fits |
MacBook Pro M1 Max 64GB | 64 GB | Q4_K_M | 16.2 | Fits |
| 12 GB | Q4_K_M | 7.5 | Too big | |
| 12 GB | Q4_K_M | 4.7 | Too big | |
| 8 GB | Q4_K_M | 2.2 | Too big |
Estimates for single-stream decoding at Q4_K_M; real tokens/sec varies with prompt length, context, batch size, and runtime build. Prompt processing (prefill) is faster than the decode figures shown here.
How LFM2 24B (24B params) fits at each quantization level on Radeon PRO W7700 16GB (16.0 GB usable).
| Quant | Bits | VRAM | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Q2_K | 2 | 9.4 GB | Low | A84 |
Q3_K_SBest for your GPU | 3 | 11.8 GB | Low | A84 |
NVFP4 | 4 | 13.4 GB | Medium | F0 |
Q4_K_M | 4 | 14.6 GB | Medium | F0 |
Q5_K_M | 5 | 17.3 GB | High | F0 |
Q6_K | 6 | 19.7 GB | High | F0 |
Q8_0 | 8 | 25.7 GB | Very High | F0 |
F16 | 16 | 49.2 GB | Maximum | F0 |
Copy-paste commands to run LFM2 24B on your machine.
Run
ollama run lfm2Upgrade options
Makes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Removes host-memory offload, which is usually the single biggest latency and throughput win.
~$899 MSRP
Makes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Removes host-memory offload, which is usually the single biggest latency and throughput win.
~$999 MSRP
Makes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Removes host-memory offload, which is usually the single biggest latency and throughput win.
~$1,899 MSRP
Yes, Radeon PRO W7700 16GB can run LFM2 24B at NVFP4 quantization (Very compromised (needs ~1.7 GB host RAM)). The recommended Q4_K_M requires 19.6 GB which exceeds available memory, but at NVFP4 it needs only 18.4 GB. Expected decode speed: 16.0 tok/s.
LFM2 24B (24B parameters) requires approximately 19.6 GB at Q4_K_M quantization. On Radeon PRO W7700 16GB, it fits at NVFP4 using 18.4 GB.
The recommended quantization is Q4_K_M, but on Radeon PRO W7700 16GB the best fitting quantization is NVFP4, which uses 18.4 GB.
On Radeon PRO W7700 16GB, LFM2 24B achieves approximately 16.0 tokens per second decode speed with a time-to-first-token of 12112ms using NVFP4 quantization.
For coding workloads, LFM2 24B on Radeon PRO W7700 16GB receives a F grade with 12.2 tok/s and 4K context.
On Radeon PRO W7700 16GB, LFM2 24B can safely use up to 4K tokens of context at NVFP4 quantization. The model's official context limit is 131K, but available memory constrains the safe maximum.
Remove offload with more accelerator memory. Prioritize a GPU or unified-memory tier that fits the whole model natively. Removing offload usually helps more than small compute gains.
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