How fast will Ornith 1.5 35B A3B feel on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)?

Ornith 1.5 35B A3B on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)

Ornith 1.5 35B A3B is a 35.95B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (3B active per token). At Q4_K_M it needs about 22.5 GB of memory. The CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5) has 89 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 33 tokens/sec (28–38), with the first token after 0.4 s for a short prompt. This estimate is projected from the hardware specs; no benchmarks exist yet.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q4_K_M21.7 GBFits33 tok/s0.4 sProjected
Q8_037.8 GBFits19 tok/s0.4 sProjected
FP1672.0 GBFits9.9 tok/s0.4 sProjected

Ornith 1.5 35B A3B on other hardware

Other models on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5)

All models on the CPU-only (Ryzen 9 9950X, 96GB DDR5) · Ornith 1.5 35B A3B on all hardware

Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.