Can Surface Laptop Ultra · RTX Spark N1X (18-core) · 24 GB run Step 5 Preview 600B-A27B?
24 GB unified · 300 GB/s memory bandwidth · Step 5 Preview 600B-A27B has 600B parameters (27B active per token).
Short answer
No. This combination isn't supported.
Step 5 Preview 600B-A27B is not published in a format llama.cpp (llama-server) can load (GGUF).
The same applies to every workload we rate (chat, coding questions, coding in a repository, agentic coding and long documents): they all need at least as much memory as chat.
Other models for Surface Laptop Ultra · RTX Spark N1X (18-core) · 24 GB
The best-rated models for chat on this machine.
- gpt-oss-20b50–85 tok/sExcellent
- MiniCPM5 2B55–90 tok/sExcellent
- Gemma 4 26B-A4B60–95 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3.5 4B35–55 tok/sExcellent
- Qwen3.5 9B18–30 tok/sExcellent
- Gemma 4 12B20–35 tok/sExcellent
Cheapest machines for Step 5 Preview 600B-A27B
Hardware rated comfortable or better for chat, lowest price first.
No machine in our catalog runs it comfortably for chat.
Same chip, other memory: 128 GB
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