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Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B requirements

Phi-3.5 family · 3.82B params · released 2024-08-23 · 588.6K Ollama pulls. Minimum to run at Q4_K_M: Apple M1 (8GB).

LicenseMIT· Commercial OK↓ 595.9K/mo♥ 988on HuggingFace
Q4_K_M
2.39 GB
Q8_0
4.06 GB
Total @ Q4 (4k)
~3.7 GB
Context
128 k

Quantization sizes

GGUF quantson disk
QuantizationSize on disk
Q2_K1.6 GB est
Q3_K_M1.9 GB est
Q4_K_M (default)2.39 GB
Q5_K_M2.7 GB est
Q6_K3.1 GB est
Q8_04.06 GB
FP167.6 GB est

Lower quant = smaller and faster, slightly lower quality. Q4_K_M is the common default.

Run it

Ollama
$ ollama run phi3.5:3.8b
llama.cpp
$ llama-cli -hf bartowski/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M
LM Studio
$ lms get bartowski/Phi-3.5-mini-instruct-GGUF

Which devices can run Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B?

FAQ

How much VRAM or RAM does Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B need?

At Q4_K_M, Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B needs about 3.7 GB (weights ~2.39 GB + KV cache + overhead) at a 4k context. At Q8_0 budget ~5.4 GB.

Can Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B run on a laptop?

Yes, Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B fits on a 16 GB machine at Q4_K_M and runs on Apple Silicon or a 12 GB+ GPU comfortably.

Can I use Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B commercially?

Yes. Phi-3.5-mini 3.8B is licensed MIT, which permits commercial use.

Microsoft's 3.8B long-context SLM. 128K context, multilingual (20+ languages). Trained on 3.4T tokens. Strong performance vs similarly-sized models on reasoning and document QA.

Sources

Memory figures are estimates. See methodology.