Can Desktop PC · Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 64 GB RAM run LFM2.5 24B-A2B?
24 GB VRAM + 64 GB RAM · 960 GB/s memory bandwidth · LFM2.5 24B-A2B has 24B parameters (2B active per token).
Short answer
Yes, excellent for chat and acceptable or better for every workload we test.
Best quantization for chat: Q4_K_M (14 GB of weights) on Lemonade. Generation: 350–480 tok/s, leaving about 8.4 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 | 350–480 tok/s | under 1 s | 8K | Details |
| Coding questionswith Continue | Excellent | Q4_K_M | 330–450 tok/s | ≈1 s | 16K | Details |
| Coding in a repositorywith Aider | Acceptable | Q4_K_M | 290–390 tok/s | ≈3 s | 32K | Details |
| Agentic codingwith OpenCode | Acceptable | Q4_K_M | 270–370 tok/s | ≈3 s | 32K | Details |
| Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI | Excellent | Q4_K_M | 200–260 tok/s | ≈10 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
Other models for Desktop PC · Radeon RX 7900 XTX · 64 GB RAM
The best-rated models for chat on this machine.
- Qwen3.6 35B-A3B240–320 tok/sExcellent
- Gemma 4 26B-A4B160–220 tok/sExcellent
- gpt-oss-20b210–280 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3.5 35B-A3B240–320 tok/sExcellent
- GLM-4.7-Flash (30B-A3B)240–320 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3 30B-A3B Instruct 2507170–230 tok/sExcellent
Cheapest machines for LFM2.5 24B-A2B
Hardware rated comfortable or better for chat, lowest price first.
- Mac mini M4 24 GB$999 · 45–60 tok/sComfortable
- Mac mini M6 24 GB$1,299 · 50–85 tok/sComfortable
- Laptop · Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (Radeon 890M) · 32 GB$1,300 · 35–60 tok/sExcellent
- Laptop · Core Ultra 7 258V (Arc 140V) · 32 GB$1,300 · 30–50 tok/sExcellent
- Mac mini M4 32 GB$1,399 · 45–60 tok/sExcellent
- MacBook Air M4 24 GB$1,399 · 45–60 tok/sComfortable
Same chip, other memory: 32 GB
Different tool, context size or workload?
These pages use typical settings. The full check models your exact setup.