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Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct

Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct needs roughly 1.9GB VRAM at Q4 quantization (7.6GB at FP16). 60 GPUs we track can run it fully in VRAM at 8k context.

Microsoft3.8B params125k contextMITCommercial use ok

VRAM at each quantization

Assumes 8k context. KV cache grows linearly with context length.

QuantWeightsKV cacheTotal
FP167.6 GB3.22 GB12.1 GB
Q83.8 GB3.22 GB7.9 GB
Q6_K2.9 GB3.22 GB6.8 GB
Q5_K_M2.4 GB3.22 GB6.3 GB
Q4_K_M1.9 GB3.22 GB5.7 GB
Q3_K_M1.5 GB3.22 GB5.3 GB
Q2_K1.1 GB3.22 GB4.9 GB

Benchmarks

GPUs that run Phi-3.5 Mini Instruct natively (60)

Plus 1 GPUs that run it with CPU offload (slower)

Notes

No GQA — full KV heads means large KV cache at long context.

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