Can Desktop PC · GeForce RTX 5090 · 64 GB RAM run LFM2.5 24B-A2B?

32 GB VRAM + 64 GB RAM · 1792 GB/s memory bandwidth · LFM2.5 24B-A2B has 24B parameters (2B active per token).

Short answer

Yes, excellent for chat and comfortable or better for every workload we test.

Best quantization for chat: Q4_K_M (14 GB of weights) on Ollama. Generation: 560–760 tok/s, leaving about 16 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	Excellent	Q4_K_M	560–760 tok/s	under 1 s	8K	Details
Coding questionswith Continue	Excellent	Q8_0	310–430 tok/s	under 1 s	16K	Details
Coding in a repositorywith Aider	Comfortable	Q8_0	290–390 tok/s	under 1 s	32K	Details
Agentic codingwith OpenCode	Comfortable	Q8_0	280–370 tok/s	≈1 s	32K	Details
Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI	Excellent	Q8_0	220–300 tok/s	≈3 s	64K	Details

Speeds are estimates calibrated against measured benchmarks on similar hardware. “First reply” is the time to read the workload’s opening prompt. How we calculate

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Different tool, context size or workload?

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