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Home/Falcon 40B Instruct/on NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB

Can it run?

Can NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB run Falcon 40B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q5_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

59.5 tok/s

TTFT

3254 ms

Safe context

8K

Memory

44.3 GB / 80.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights28.8 GB
KV Cache6.3 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom8.0 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well59.5 tok/s4733 ms8K
ChatCRuns well59.5 tok/s1775 ms8K
CodingCRuns well59.5 tok/s3254 ms8K
RAGCRuns well59.5 tok/s5916 ms8K
ReasoningCRuns well59.5 tok/s3845 ms8K

Quantization options

How Falcon 40B Instruct (40B params) fits at each quantization level on NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB (80.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
15.6 GB
LowD33
Q3_K_S
3
19.6 GB
LowD34
NVFP4
4
22.4 GB
MediumD35
Q4_K_M
4
24.4 GB
MediumD35
Q5_K_M
5
28.8 GB
HighD36
Q6_K
6
32.8 GB
HighD37
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
42.8 GB
Very HighC40
F16
16
82.0 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

Ollama
ollama run falcon-40b-instruct
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download falcon-40b-instruct
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