Model benchmarks

ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF local LLM performance

As of November 2026, ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF runs at up to 98.7 tok/s for local inference (best of 5 community benchmark runs across 2 GPUs).

Unsloth StudioIQ2_MQ6_KQ8_0
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Model size

35B

Peak speed

98.7 tok/s

Average speed

80.3 tok/s

Avg PP

900.7 tok/s

Min memory

19.9 GB

Max context

262,144 tokens

Avg output / run

40,955 tokens

Avg runtime / run

9m 4s

Avg quality

83.3

Benchmark runs

5

GPUs tested

2

Quality by task

Average LLM-judged quality (0–100) with the run-to-run spread shown as a P5–P95 band, overall and for each benchmark task, across all 5 runs. The low and high columns show how much the judge’s score varies between runs, and need at least two runs to display.

TaskP5 (low)AvgP95 (high)
Overall74.983.387.3
Agent Workflow41.275.690.8
Code Generation76.582.185.6
Role Play & Narrative86.389.893.1
Research & Analysis83.085.488.1

Performance by hardware and tool

Every hardware/tool/quantization combination ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF has been benchmarked on, ranked by peak token generation speed. Last updated November 2026.

HardwareToolQuantBest tok/sAvg tok/sMemoryContextQualityRuns
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXUnsloth Studio—98.7 tok/s96.3 tok/sn/a131,072 tokens80.12
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXUnsloth StudioQ8_089.9 tok/s89.9 tok/sn/a131,072 tokens86.01
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTXUnsloth StudioQ6_K80.7 tok/s80.7 tok/sn/a262,144 tokens86.31
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPUUnsloth StudioIQ2_M38.2 tok/s38.2 tok/s19.9 GB32,768 tokens83.71

Benchmark runs

All 5 ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF runs submitted so far — expand one for its hardware, quality breakdown and per-scenario detail.

Frequently asked questions

Is ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF good for coding?
In our benchmarks, ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF scores 82.1/100 for coding. It runs at about 80.3 tok/s, so if you want more speed, Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B.APEX-I-NanoPlus is faster (~96.1 tok/s) and still scores well for coding (81.8/100).
Is ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF good for agentic (tool-using) tasks?
In our benchmarks, ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF scores 75.6/100 for agentic workflows. It runs at about 80.3 tok/s, so if you want more speed, qwen3.8-flash-next-iq3_s is faster (~99.8 tok/s) and still scores well for agentic workflows (90.2/100).
How fast is ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF for local inference?
Across 5 community benchmark runs, ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF reaches up to 98.7 tok/s and averages 80.3 tok/s, with the fastest results on AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX.
How much memory does ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF need?
The leanest observed configuration used about 19.9 GB of memory (quantizations tested: IQ2_M, Q6_K, Q8_0).
Which tools have been used to run ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF?
Benchmarks were submitted using Unsloth Studio. Results are community-contributed and updated as new runs arrive.