[TheMatten]

I can reasonably run (quantized) Mistral-7B on a 16GB machine without GPU, using ollama. Are you sure it isn't a configuration error or bug?

[ilaksh]

How many tokens per second and what are the specs of the machine? My attempts at CPU only have been really slow.

[berkut]

In my experience with llama.cpp using the CPU (on Linux) is very slow compared to GPU or NPU with the same models as my M1 MacBook Pro using Metal (or maybe it's the shared memory allowing the speedup?).

Even with 12 threads of my 5900X (I've tried using the full 24 SMT - that doesn't really seem to help) with the dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b.Q5_K_M model, my MacBook Pro is around 5-6x faster in terms of tokens per second...

[TheMatten]

Seems to be around 3 tokens/s on my laptop, which is faster than average human, but not too fast of course. On a desktop with mid-range GPU used for offloading, I can get around 12 tokens/s, which is plenty fast for chatting.