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Can Desktop PC · RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell · 128 GB RAM run LFM2.5 24B-A2B?

96 GB VRAM + 128 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: 530–720 tok/s, leaving about 80 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.

WorkloadVerdictQuantGenerationFirst replyContext
Chatwith Open WebUIExcellentQ4_K_M530–720 tok/sunder 1 s8KDetails
Coding questionswith ContinueExcellentQ8_0300–400 tok/sunder 1 s16KDetails
Coding in a repositorywith AiderComfortableQ8_0270–370 tok/sunder 1 s32KDetails
Agentic codingwith OpenCodeComfortableQ8_0260–350 tok/s≈1 s32KDetails
Long documents (64K)with Open WebUIExcellentQ8_0210–280 tok/s≈3 s64KDetails

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

Different tool, context size or workload?

These pages use typical settings. The full check models your exact setup.