Can Laptop · GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop · 32 GB RAM run Kolibri-1 (78B-A3.5B)?
24 GB VRAM + 32 GB RAM · 896 GB/s memory bandwidth · Kolibri-1 (78B-A3.5B) has 78.1B parameters (3.46B active per token).
Short answer
It loads, but it's borderline even for chat.
Best quantization for chat: Q4_K_M (45 GB of weights) on Ollama. Generation: 20–35 tok/s, leaving about 0.0 GB free for your other apps.
How it rates for each workload
Same model and machine, different jobs. Agents and long documents send far bigger prompts than chat, so they need much more speed and memory.
| Workload | Verdict | Quant | Generation | First reply | Context | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chatwith Open WebUI | Borderline | Q4_K_M | 20–35 tok/s | ≈2 s | 8K | Details |
| Coding questionswith Continue | Does Not Fit | — | — | — | — | Details |
| Coding in a repositorywith Aider | Does Not Fit | — | — | — | — | Details |
| Agentic codingwith OpenCode | Does Not Fit | — | — | — | — | Details |
| Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI | Does Not Fit | — | — | — | — | Details |
Speeds are bandwidth-based estimates; no direct benchmark exists for this pair. “First reply” is the time to read the workload’s opening prompt. How we calculate
Other models for Laptop · GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop · 32 GB RAM
The best-rated models for chat on this machine.
- Qwen3.6 35B-A3B180–290 tok/sExcellent
- Gemma 4 26B-A4B120–200 tok/sExcellent
- LFM2.5 24B-A2B260–430 tok/sExcellent
- gpt-oss-20b150–260 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3.5 35B-A3B180–290 tok/sExcellent
- GLM-4.7-Flash (30B-A3B)180–290 tok/sExcellent
Cheapest machines for Kolibri-1 (78B-A3.5B)
Hardware rated comfortable or better for chat, lowest price first.
- Desktop PC · Ryzen 9 9950X (no GPU) · 64 GB DDR5$1,400 · 13–20 tok/sComfortable
- Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 64 GB$1,600 · 65–90 tok/sExcellent
- Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 128 GB$2,000 · 40–55 tok/sExcellent
- Mac mini M4 Pro 64 GB$2,199 · 60–80 tok/sExcellent
- Mac Studio M1 Max 64 GB$2,399 · 80–110 tok/sExcellent
- Mac mini M5 Pro 64 GB$2,499 · 55–90 tok/sExcellent
Different tool, context size or workload?
These pages use typical settings. The full check models your exact setup.