Raspberry Pi 5 / Qwen3 1.7B
Can a Raspberry Pi 5 run Qwen3 1.7B?
Yes, usable but slower than reading speed. Measured generation speed: 7.8 tok/s across 1 public run.
Rule of thumb: 10+ tok/s feels like a chat; 4–10 is usable for assistants and automations; under 4 is batch-job territory. Speeds depend on quantization, runtime, context length and cooling. Check each source.
| Board | Quant | Runtime | Gen tok/s | Prompt tok/s | TTFT ms | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raspberry Pi 5 Raspberry Pi 5 | not reported | CPU backend (per paper) | 7.8 | – | 1653 | source ↗ published 2026 |
Qwen3 1.7B on other boards
- M5Stack LLM8850 7.38 tok/s best
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- Raspberry Pi 5 8GB: $175 official list price after Apr 2026 increase, source ↗ (2026-04-01) Check price on AmazonBuy at Seeed Studio
- Raspberry Pi 5 16GB: $305 official list price after Apr 2026 increase, source ↗ (2026-04-01) Check price on AmazonBuy at Seeed Studio
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