amd.Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think-GGUF
Use this llama.cpp branch: https://github.com/csabakecskemeti/llama.cpp/tree/instella-moe
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Can you run it?
Estimated VRAM at 8K context unless noted. Pick your hardware to see the verdict per quantization.
| File | Quant | Size | Est. VRAM | Verdict on RTX 4090 · 24 GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| amd.Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think.f16.gguf.Q2_K.gguf | Q2_K | 6.5 GB | 7.7 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| amd.Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think.f16.gguf.Q3_K_M.gguf | Q3_K_M | 8.2 GB | 9.5 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| amd.Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think.f16.gguf.Q4_K_M.gguf | Q4_K_M | 10.5 GB | 12.0 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| amd.Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think.f16.gguf.Q5_K_M.gguf | Q5_K_M | 12.0 GB | 13.7 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| amd.Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think.f16.gguf.Q6_K.gguf | Q6_K | 14.2 GB | 16.1 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
| amd.Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think.f16.gguf.Q8_0.gguf | Q8 | 16.9 GB | 19.1 GB | ✅ Runs comfortably |
Estimate: file size × 1.1 + KV cache at 8K + 0.5 GB overhead. Not a benchmark — how we calculate this.
Run it
copy-paste, exact tags checked against the Hub$ ollama run amd-instella-moe-16b-a3b-think-gguf # pin the quantization explicitly $ ollama run amd-instella-moe-16b-a3b-think-gguf-q4_k_m
$ huggingface-cli download DevQuasar/amd.Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think-GGUF-GGUF \
amd.Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think.f16.gguf.Q4_K_M.gguf --local-dir .
$ llama-cli -m amd.Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think.f16.gguf.Q4_K_M.gguf \
-c 8192 -ngl 99 -t 8 --color
$ curl -s https://aimodelscomparison.com/api/v1/models/amd-instella-moe-16b-a3b-think-gguf
{
"hf_id": "DevQuasar/amd.Instella-MoE-16B-A3B-Think-GGUF",
"params_b": null,
"context_length": null,
"license": { "id": "", "commercial": "unknown" },
"downloads_30d": 350548,
"vram_estimates": [
{ "quant": "Q2_K", "gb": 7.7 },
{ "quant": "Q3_K_M", "gb": 9.5 }
],
"updated_at": "2026-08-22T01:00:31Z"
}
Specifications
- First seen on the Hub
- 2026-07-31
- Training datasets
- undisclosed
- Added to our catalog
- 2026-08-22
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