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M5Stack LLM8850 M.2 (AX8850)

An AX8850 accelerator on an M.2 card, for adding an NPU to another host.

Fastest measured run

27.05tok/s

Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct · W4A16 · StackFlow · source ↗

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Chip: AX8850
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Runs: 7
Models: 7
Sources: 1

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Every run on this board.

Model	Size	Quant	Runtime	Gen tok/s	Prompt tok/s	TTFT ms	Source
Qwen2.5 0.5B Instruct	500M	`W4A16`	StackFlow	27.05	–	–	source ↗ accessed 2026-10-17
MiniCPM4 0.5B	500M	`W8A16`	StackFlow	21.05	–	212.91	source ↗ accessed 2026-10-17
Qwen2.5 1.5B Instruct	1.5B	`W4A16`	StackFlow	15.06	–	–	source ↗ accessed 2026-10-17
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 1.5B	1.5B	`W4A16`	StackFlow	13.29	–	–	source ↗ accessed 2026-10-17
Qwen3 0.6B	600M	`W8A16`	StackFlow	12.88	–	670.51	source ↗ accessed 2026-10-17
Qwen3-VL 2B Instruct VLM	2B	`W8A16`	StackFlow	7.8	–	–	source ↗ accessed 2026-10-17
Qwen3 1.7B	1.7B	`W8A16`	StackFlow	7.38	–	796.38	source ↗ accessed 2026-10-17

Can the M5Stack LLM8850 run…

DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 1.5B MiniCPM4 0.5B Qwen2.5 0.5B Qwen2.5 1.5B Qwen3 0.6B Qwen3 1.7B Qwen3-VL 2B

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