Nomic Embed Text 137M
Popular lightweight embedding model for document search and local RAG; not a chat model.
DeviceTerra has not lab-tested this exact artifact on every hardware combination. RAM and VRAM floors are LocalLens planning estimates, not publisher guarantees.
Will it run?
LocalLens uses 3 GB as a conservative planning floor for this profile and its listed quantization. This is not measured speed. Processor, backend support, context length, memory bandwidth and other applications still affect the result.
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Suggested Ollama artifact
Confirm the tag on the official page before downloading, then run:
ollama pull nomic-embed-textStart with a representative non-sensitive task. Record the exact runtime, quantization, context, load time, generation speed, memory use and answer quality.
Evidence and limits
Published context: 8K published max. The source establishes specifications; it does not guarantee that maximum context fits at the LocalLens minimum RAM floor.