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Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat

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Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat at Q4_K_M is exactly 963,674,304 bytes (0.90 GiB / 0.96 GB) — an effective 5.221 bits per weight, not the nominal 4. Its KV cache at 32K is 6.00 GiB.

From the file· summed from 1 file(s)From the file· KV per layer
Parameters
1.5B
Architecture
llama
24 layers
Context
131,072
native (config.json)
License
—

Shipped quantizations

● exact bytes, summed from published files
QuantSize●Exact bytes●Effective bpw●Tensors●Publisher
IQ1_S0.46 GiB491,167,9362.661—MaziyarPanahi
IQ1_M0.47 GiB508,567,7442.756—MaziyarPanahi
IQ2_XS0.53 GiB563,912,8963.055—MaziyarPanahi
IQ2_M0.58 GiB624,804,0323.385—bartowski
Q2_K0.59 GiB634,699,9683.439—MaziyarPanahi
Q2_K0.59 GiB634,699,9683.439—bartowski
IQ3_XS0.65 GiB694,952,1283.765—MaziyarPanahi
IQ3_XS0.65 GiB694,952,1283.765—bartowski
Q3_K_S0.67 GiB723,411,1363.920—bartowski
Q3_K_S0.67 GiB723,411,1363.920—MaziyarPanahi
IQ3_M0.70 GiB754,376,8964.087—bartowski
Q2_K_L0.71 GiB762,699,9684.133—bartowski
Q3_K_M0.73 GiB785,719,4884.257219bartowski
Q3_K_M0.73 GiB785,719,4884.257—MaziyarPanahi
Q3_K_L0.77 GiB826,040,5124.476—bartowski
Q3_K_L0.77 GiB826,040,5124.476—MaziyarPanahi
IQ4_XS0.78 GiB832,569,5364.511219bartowski
IQ4_XS0.78 GiB832,569,5364.511—MaziyarPanahi
Q4_00.81 GiB868,270,2724.705219bartowski
Q4_K_S0.84 GiB904,184,0004.899—bartowski
Q4_K_S0.84 GiB904,184,0004.899—MaziyarPanahi
Q4_K_M0.90 GiB963,674,3045.221—MaziyarPanahi
Q4_K_M0.90 GiB963,674,3045.221219bartowski
Q5_K_S0.98 GiB1,051,230,4005.696—bartowski
Q5_K_S0.98 GiB1,051,230,4005.696—MaziyarPanahi
Q4_K_L0.99 GiB1,060,954,3045.748—bartowski
Q5_K_M1.02 GiB1,100,185,7925.961—MaziyarPanahi
Q5_K_M1.02 GiB1,100,185,7925.961219bartowski
Q5_K_L1.10 GiB1,181,081,7926.399—bartowski
Q6_K1.19 GiB1,278,517,4406.927219bartowski
Q6_K_L1.25 GiB1,342,005,4407.271—bartowski
Q8_01.46 GiB1,570,562,2408.510219bartowski
F162.75 GiB2,954,682,30416.009219bartowski

KV cache by context

computed per layer
ContextKV cache (f16)●Flat formulaOverstated byFull / windowed / recurrent
4,0960.75 GiB0.75 GiB—24 / 0 / 0
8,1921.50 GiB1.50 GiB—24 / 0 / 0
16,3843.00 GiB3.00 GiB—24 / 0 / 0
32,7686.00 GiB6.00 GiB—24 / 0 / 0
65,53612.00 GiB12.00 GiB—24 / 0 / 0
131,07224.00 GiB24.00 GiB—24 / 0 / 0

Compare with

same modality, comparable size
vs Qwen3-4Bvs HyperCLOVAX-SEED-Text-Instruct-1.5Bvs Llama-3.2-1B-Instructvs ced-basevs gemma-3-1b-itvs Qwen3-1.7BAll 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 Q4_K_M at roughly 0.77 GiB. The real file is 0.90 GiB, because a quantization is a mixture and some tensors are always kept at higher precision.

Architecture

from config.json
Layers
24
Attention heads
16
KV heads
16
Head dim
128
Hidden size
2048
Vocab
64,000
Sliding window
none
SWA period
—
MLA
no
Experts
—
Experts per token
—
use_sliding_window
—

Questions people ask

How much VRAM does Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat need?
Q4_K_M is exactly 963,674,304 bytes (0.90 GiB) in weights. Add the KV cache, which depends on your context length, plus roughly half a gigabyte of runtime overhead.
How large is Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat's KV cache?
6.00 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 Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat 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.