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SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct

HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct

SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct at I1-IQ1_S is exactly 98,386,880 bytes (0.09 GiB / 0.10 GB) — an effective 3.069 bits per weight, not the nominal 1. Its KV cache at 32K is 0.70 GiB.

From the file· summed from 1 file(s)From the file· KV per layer
Parameters
256M
Architecture
llama
30 layers
Context
8,192
native (config.json)
License
apache-2.0

Shipped quantizations

● exact bytes, summed from published files
QuantSize●Exact bytes●Effective bpw●Tensors●Publisher
I1-IQ1_S0.09 GiB98,386,8803.069—mradermacher
I1-IQ1_M0.09 GiB98,946,7523.086—mradermacher
I1-IQ2_XXS0.09 GiB99,879,8723.115—mradermacher
I1-IQ2_XS0.09 GiB100,626,3683.139—mradermacher
I1-IQ2_S0.09 GiB100,895,9363.147—mradermacher
I1-IQ2_M0.09 GiB101,642,4323.170—mradermacher
I1-Q2_K_S0.10 GiB102,181,5683.187—mradermacher
I1-IQ3_XXS0.10 GiB103,011,0083.213—mradermacher
I1-Q2_K0.10 GiB104,255,1683.252—mradermacher
I1-Q3_K_S0.10 GiB104,255,1683.252—mradermacher
I1-IQ3_XS0.10 GiB104,255,1683.252—mradermacher
I1-IQ3_S0.10 GiB104,255,1683.252—mradermacher
I1-IQ3_M0.10 GiB106,266,5603.315—mradermacher
I1-IQ4_XS0.10 GiB106,950,8483.336—mradermacher
I1-IQ4_NL0.10 GiB107,780,2883.362—mradermacher
I1-Q4_00.10 GiB107,946,1763.367—mradermacher
I1-Q3_K_M0.10 GiB109,563,5843.417—mradermacher
I1-Q3_K_L0.11 GiB113,586,3683.543—mradermacher
I1-Q4_10.11 GiB116,189,8883.624—mradermacher
I1-Q4_K_S0.11 GiB121,641,1523.794—mradermacher
I1-Q4_K_M0.12 GiB125,055,6803.901—mradermacher
I1-Q5_K_S0.12 GiB131,350,2084.097—mradermacher
I1-Q5_K_M0.12 GiB133,479,1044.163—mradermacher
I1-Q6_K0.16 GiB168,628,9285.260—mradermacher
Q8_00.16 GiB175,056,3525.460—ggml-org
F160.31 GiB327,811,55210.225—ggml-org

KV cache by context

computed per layer
ContextKV cache (f16)●Flat formulaOverstated byFull / windowed / recurrent
4,0960.09 GiB0.09 GiB—30 / 0 / 0
8,1920.18 GiB0.18 GiB—30 / 0 / 0
16,3840.35 GiB0.35 GiB—30 / 0 / 0
32,7680.70 GiB0.70 GiB—30 / 0 / 0
65,5361.41 GiB1.41 GiB—30 / 0 / 0
131,0722.81 GiB2.81 GiB—30 / 0 / 0

Compare with

same modality, comparable size
vs ced-basevs Qwen3-0.6Bvs SmolLM2-135M-Instructvs gemma-3-270m-itvs tinygemma3_cifarvs LFM2.5-230MAll alternatives →Will it fit on my card? →

Will it run on your card?

full quant x context sweep
By VRAM:8GB12GB16GB24GB32GB48GB
Radeon RX 6500 XT 4GBGeForce RTX 3050 6GBGeForce RTX 5050 8GBGeForce RTX 3080 10GBGeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11GBGeForce RTX 5070 12GBGeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GBApple M3 Pro 18GBGeForce RTX 3080 Ti 20GBGeForce RTX 5090 D V2 24GBGeForce RTX 5090 D 32GBApple M5 Max 36GBApple M5 Pro 48GBApple M5 Max 64GBApple M3 Ultra 96GBApple M5 Max 128GBApple M2 Ultra 192GBApple M3 Ultra 256GBApple M3 Ultra 512GB

Why other calculators give a different number

A parameters × bits ÷ 8 estimate puts I1-IQ1_S at roughly 0.13 GiB. The real file is 0.09 GiB, because a quantization is a mixture and some tensors are always kept at higher precision.

Architecture

from config.json
Layers
30
Attention heads
9
KV heads
3
Head dim
64
Hidden size
576
Vocab
49,280
Sliding window
none
SWA period
—
MLA
no
Experts
—
Experts per token
—
use_sliding_window
—

Questions people ask

How much VRAM does SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct need?
I1-IQ1_S is exactly 98,386,880 bytes (0.09 GiB) in weights. Add the KV cache, which depends on your context length, plus roughly half a gigabyte of runtime overhead.
How large is SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct's KV cache?
0.70 GiB at 32K context with an f16 cache, computed per layer. Quantizing the cache to q8_0 roughly halves it, which is often the difference between a context length fitting and not.
Which quantization of SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct should I use?
Q4_K_M is the usual default. Pick the largest quantization that fits your card at the context you actually need — the table above gives exact sizes for every one published.
SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct — VRAM requirements, exact quant sizes — ossmodeldb