Can Laptop · GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop · 32 GB RAM run Recursive Flint (40B-A2.5B)?
24 GB VRAM + 32 GB RAM · 896 GB/s memory bandwidth · Recursive Flint (40B-A2.5B) has 39.8B parameters (2.5B active per token).
Short answer
Yes, excellent for chat; borderline for 64K-token documents.
Best quantization for chat: MXFP4 (20 GB of weights) on Ollama. Generation: 240–390 tok/s, leaving about 2.1 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 | MXFP4 | 240–390 tok/s | under 1 s | 8K | Details |
| Coding questionswith Continue | Excellent | MXFP4 | 220–370 tok/s | under 1 s | 16K | Details |
| Coding in a repositorywith Aider | Comfortable | MXFP4 | 180–310 tok/s | ≈2 s | 32K | Details |
| Agentic codingwith OpenCode | Comfortable | MXFP4 | 170–280 tok/s | ≈2 s | 32K | Details |
| Long documents (64K)with Open WebUI | Borderline | MXFP4 | 120–190 tok/s | ≈7 s | 64K | 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 Recursive Flint (40B-A2.5B)
Hardware rated comfortable or better for chat, lowest price first.
- Mac mini M4 32 GB$1,399 · 40–55 tok/sExcellent
- Desktop PC · Ryzen 9 9950X (no GPU) · 64 GB DDR5$1,400 · 20–35 tok/sExcellent
- Desktop PC · Intel Arc Pro B60 24GB · 32 GB RAM$1,500 · 95–160 tok/sExcellent
- Ryzen AI Max+ 395 mini PC / Framework Desktop · 64 GB$1,600 · 100–140 tok/sExcellent
- Desktop PC · Intel Arc Pro B60 24GB · 64 GB RAM$1,628 · 95–160 tok/sExcellent
- Mac mini M2 Pro 32 GB$1,699 · 65–90 tok/sExcellent
Different tool, context size or workload?
These pages use typical settings. The full check models your exact setup.