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INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF

Date: 2026-11-15Commit: 7293422Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓

Text generation model. Gguf weights, 218 GB in all. Published by bartowski under Apache-2.0.

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$ fw get bartowski/INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 5b1fb011782e… · 218 GB · 32 files
$ fw verify ./INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF bartowski/INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF
From sourceHosted (signed)bartowski/INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUFLast check: 2026-11-15 04:56 UTC

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Overview

Size
218 GB
Weights
3.25 GB (smallest of 29 GGUF variants)
Parameters
not stated
Formats
gguf
Task
text generation
License
Apache-2.0 (permissive)
Files
32, each with a sha256
Publisher
bartowski
Added
2026-11-15
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Base model: PrimeIntellect/INTELLECT-1-Instruct

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Llamacpp imatrix Quantizations of INTELLECT-1-Instruct#

Using llama.cpp release b4222 for quantization.

Original model: https://huggingface.co/PrimeIntellect/INTELLECT-1-Instruct

All quants made using imatrix option with dataset from here

Run them in LM Studio

Prompt format#

<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|>

{system_prompt}<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|>

{prompt}<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|>

Download a file (not the whole branch) from below:#

FilenameQuant typeFile SizeSplitDescription
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-f32.gguff3240.85GBfalseFull F32 weights.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-f16.gguff1620.40 GBfalseFull F16 weights.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q8_0.ggufQ8_010.86GBfalseExtremely high quality, generally unneeded but max available quant.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q6_K_L.ggufQ6_K_L8.64GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very high quality, near perfect, recommended.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q6_K.ggufQ6_K8.39GBfalseVery high quality, near perfect, recommended.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q5_K_L.ggufQ5_K_L7.60GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. High quality, recommended.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q5_K_M.ggufQ5_K_M7.27GBfalseHigh quality, recommended.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q5_K_S.ggufQ5_K_S7.10GBfalseHigh quality, recommended.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q4_K_L.ggufQ4_K_L6.62GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Good quality, recommended.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q4_K_M.ggufQ4_K_M6.23GBfalseGood quality, default size for most use cases, recommended.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q4_K_S.ggufQ4_K_S5.93GBfalseSlightly lower quality with more space savings, recommended.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q3_K_XL.ggufQ3_K_XL5.92GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Lower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q4_0.ggufQ4_05.91GBfalseLegacy format, offers online repacking for ARM CPU inference.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ4_NL.ggufIQ4_NL5.91GBfalseSimilar to IQ4_XS, but slightly larger. Offers online repacking for ARM CPU inference.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q4_0_8_8.ggufQ4_0_8_85.89GBfalseOptimized for ARM and AVX inference. Requires 'sve' support for ARM (see details below). Don't use on Mac.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q4_0_4_8.ggufQ4_0_4_85.89GBfalseOptimized for ARM inference. Requires 'i8mm' support (see details below). Don't use on Mac.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q4_0_4_4.ggufQ4_0_4_45.89GBfalseOptimized for ARM inference. Should work well on all ARM chips, not for use with GPUs. Don't use on Mac.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ4_XS.ggufIQ4_XS5.61GBfalseDecent quality, smaller than Q4_K_S with similar performance, recommended.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q3_K_L.ggufQ3_K_L5.46GBfalseLower quality but usable, good for low RAM availability.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q3_K_M.ggufQ3_K_M5.06GBfalseLow quality.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ3_M.ggufIQ3_M4.76GBfalseMedium-low quality, new method with decent performance comparable to Q3_K_M.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q3_K_S.ggufQ3_K_S4.60GBfalseLow quality, not recommended.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q2_K_L.ggufQ2_K_L4.49GBfalseUses Q8_0 for embed and output weights. Very low quality but surprisingly usable.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ3_XS.ggufIQ3_XS4.41GBfalseLower quality, new method with decent performance, slightly better than Q3_K_S.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ3_XXS.ggufIQ3_XXS4.11GBfalseLower quality, new method with decent performance, comparable to Q3 quants.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q2_K.ggufQ2_K3.98GBfalseVery low quality but surprisingly usable.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ2_M.ggufIQ2_M3.68GBfalseRelatively low quality, uses SOTA techniques to be surprisingly usable.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ2_S.ggufIQ2_S3.43GBfalseLow quality, uses SOTA techniques to be usable.
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ2_XS.ggufIQ2_XS3.25GBfalseLow quality, uses SOTA techniques to be usable.

Embed/output weights#

Some of these quants (Q3_K_XL, Q4_K_L etc) are the standard quantization method with the embeddings and output weights quantized to Q8_0 instead of what they would normally default to.

Downloading using huggingface-cli#

Click to view download instructions

First, make sure you have hugginface-cli installed:

pip install -U "huggingface_hub[cli]"

Then, you can target the specific file you want:

huggingface-cli download bartowski/INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF --include "INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q4_K_M.gguf" --local-dir ./

If the model is bigger than 50GB, it will have been split into multiple files. In order to download them all to a local folder, run:

huggingface-cli download bartowski/INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF --include "INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q8_0/*" --local-dir ./

You can either specify a new local-dir (INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q8_0) or download them all in place (./)

Q4_0_X_X information#

New: Thanks to efforts made to have online repacking of weights in this PR, you can now just use Q4_0 if your llama.cpp has been compiled for your ARM device.

Similarly, if you want to get slightly better performance, you can use IQ4_NL thanks to this PR which will also repack the weights for ARM, though only the 4_4 for now. The loading time may be slower but it will result in an overall speed incrase.

Click to view Q4_0_X_X information

These are NOT for Metal (Apple) or GPU (nvidia/AMD/intel) offloading, only ARM chips (and certain AVX2/AVX512 CPUs).

If you're using an ARM chip, the Q4_0_X_X quants will have a substantial speedup. Check out Q4_0_4_4 speed comparisons on the original pull request

To check which one would work best for your ARM chip, you can check AArch64 SoC features (thanks EloyOn!).

If you're using a CPU that supports AVX2 or AVX512 (typically server CPUs and AMD's latest Zen5 CPUs) and are not offloading to a GPU, the Q4_0_8_8 may offer a nice speed as well:

Click to view benchmarks on an AVX2 system (EPYC7702)

modelsizeparamsbackendthreadstestt/s% (vs Q4_0)
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp512204.03 ± 1.03100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp1024282.92 ± 0.19100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp2048259.49 ± 0.44100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg12839.12 ± 0.27100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg25639.31 ± 0.69100%
qwen2 3B Q4_01.70 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg51240.52 ± 0.03100%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp512301.02 ± 1.74147%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp1024287.23 ± 0.20101%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp2048262.77 ± 1.81101%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg12818.80 ± 0.9948%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg25624.46 ± 3.0483%
qwen2 3B Q4_K_M1.79 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg51236.32 ± 3.5990%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp512271.71 ± 3.53133%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp1024279.86 ± 45.63100%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64pp2048320.77 ± 5.00124%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg12843.51 ± 0.05111%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg25643.35 ± 0.09110%
qwen2 3B Q4_0_8_81.69 GiB3.09 BCPU64tg51242.60 ± 0.31105%

Q4_0_8_8 offers a nice bump to prompt processing and a small bump to text generation

Which file should I choose?#

Click here for details

A great write up with charts showing various performances is provided by Artefact2 here

The first thing to figure out is how big a model you can run. To do this, you'll need to figure out how much RAM and/or VRAM you have.

If you want your model running as FAST as possible, you'll want to fit the whole thing on your GPU's VRAM. Aim for a quant with a file size 1-2GB smaller than your GPU's total VRAM.

If you want the absolute maximum quality, add both your system RAM and your GPU's VRAM together, then similarly grab a quant with a file size 1-2GB Smaller than that total.

Next, you'll need to decide if you want to use an 'I-quant' or a 'K-quant'.

If you don't want to think too much, grab one of the K-quants. These are in format 'QX_K_X', like Q5_K_M.

If you want to get more into the weeds, you can check out this extremely useful feature chart:

llama.cpp feature matrix

But basically, if you're aiming for below Q4, and you're running cuBLAS (Nvidia) or rocBLAS (AMD), you should look towards the I-quants. These are in format IQX_X, like IQ3_M. These are newer and offer better performance for their size.

These I-quants can also be used on CPU and Apple Metal, but will be slower than their K-quant equivalent, so speed vs performance is a tradeoff you'll have to decide.

The I-quants are not compatible with Vulcan, which is also AMD, so if you have an AMD card double check if you're using the rocBLAS build or the Vulcan build. At the time of writing this, LM Studio has a preview with ROCm support, and other inference engines have specific builds for ROCm.

Credits#

Thank you kalomaze and Dampf for assistance in creating the imatrix calibration dataset.

Thank you ZeroWw for the inspiration to experiment with embed/output.

Want to support my work? Visit my ko-fi page here: https://ko-fi.com/bartowski

Files

32 files · 218 GBWeights 3.25 GB (smallest of 29 GGUF variants). Sizes and sha256 from the signed manifest.
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.gitattributes3.58 KB7ede6f983e0db04b363a2f47d7526af1e89ecb1b9d14cbe8fc792cdef42fb971
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ2_M.gguf3.68 GB7c5ec1ecb5651a920e3db89a68c5c295aa51d95b3178171c8a690ce470c4ca8b
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ2_S.gguf3.43 GB454d10b88cfadc74e9c28603053b0793808eff5806646e1ba35490de53b733d1
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ2_XS.gguf3.25 GBcfe8efc13733721436596992182de914d2a19d73ac68d7622b0b67a6f8c5c0d7
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ3_M.gguf4.76 GB5208174fa43690db09e1e44569b8e0eb3047dca2e47f52cf7898353e72857f8d
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ3_XS.gguf4.41 GB2ac4754f90bb703d4dd739e9444883984e40fb71cffe82eb376ec3971cfea42c
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ3_XXS.gguf4.11 GBe1c34f4d46f1a5722e4aad070a8ef112af5d7dc0a0e1be1cebd58f48e1270305
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ4_NL.gguf5.91 GBcb92099f700a7a098ea17bd276bccc1b4c149ce88108f1aaeefdc155a79ae1a2
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ4_XS.gguf5.61 GBb330919a61da919fa8eda74bed59cc0a231318d3d70dec697b6e04ec11d143da
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q2_K.gguf3.98 GB5ae13d224fca13f8ca0b8712cedd15fecb3fdb0912c67f1eb9ccec01f44ad4ee
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q2_K_L.gguf4.49 GB3ac07beba0188dcefbcd581d352245f76795f8ddaeb43be999563aa09c51d998
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INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q4_0.gguf5.91 GBbfd3c4d9f969b3585d805e4edbaf4fa52b4a07b48d79d711d4618f4c8b4b7e9c
INTELLECT-1-Instruct-Q4_0_4_4.gguf5.89 GB7b9908a44203970976717adf8546203f6574527e0543be1cbaaf60237fb39eb7
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INTELLECT-1-Instruct-f32.gguf40.9 GB41ac371779db828112f09e90765abdf95af31efd5cbe16e0eeb71079feb4f636
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README.md15.7 KB3cb1208a36285e876856a622a34d00becfb18b7cbd79e11d10eb225256c9cee7
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7293422e6c pinned now2026-11-15 04:56 UTC32 files · 218 GB

Use it

$ fw get bartowski/INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF
# manifest sha256 5b1fb011782e… · 218 GB · 32 files
$ fw verify ./INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF bartowski/INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF
fw.pyChecks the signature and every sha256, tries each source in order, resumes.
$ python3 fw.py get https://freeweights.allternit.com/manifests/bartowski/INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF.json --dir ./INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF $ python3 fw.py verify ./INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF ./bartowski__INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF.json
hfThe Hugging Face CLI with one setting. Same repo id.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download bartowski/INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF --revision 7293422e6c759528ad110db71fc0b8c60623d12e --local-dir ./INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF
llama.cppDownload one GGUF variant (INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ2_XS, 3.25 GB), then serve it.
$ HF_ENDPOINT=https://freeweights.allternit.com hf download bartowski/INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF --include "INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ2_XS*" --local-dir ./INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF $ llama-server -m ./INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF/INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ2_XS.gguf
OllamaMake an Ollama model from the downloaded file.
$ printf 'FROM ./INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF/INTELLECT-1-Instruct-IQ2_XS.gguf\n' > Modelfile $ ollama create intellect-1-instruct-gguf -f Modelfile

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From: bartowski <huggingface.co/bartowski>Newsgroups: alt.freeweights.textSubject: INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUFDate: 2026-11-15Commit: 7293422Signed: 2DC28CC7B26A283B ✓
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bartowski/INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF
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7293422e6c759528ad110db71fc0b8c60623d12e
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INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF.json · .minisig
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5b1fb011782e2e1f71a936ae954bac170236084ae6a9d784e0f0827d3b09e470
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minisign, key 2DC28CC7B26A283B. INTELLECT-1-Instruct-GGUF.json. Provenance. Takedown history: none.
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