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Home/Llama 3.2 3B Instruct/on NVIDIA A100 40GB

Can it run?

Can NVIDIA A100 40GB run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q5_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

616.8 tok/s

TTFT

350 ms

Safe context

78K

Memory

8.2 GB / 40.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights2.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom4.0 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well616.8 tok/s457 ms154K
ChatCRuns well616.8 tok/s350 ms39K
CodingCRuns well616.8 tok/s350 ms78K
RAGCRuns well616.8 tok/s571 ms154K
ReasoningCRuns well616.8 tok/s371 ms78K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (3B params) fits at each quantization level on NVIDIA A100 40GB (40.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
1.2 GB
LowD30
Q3_K_S
3
1.5 GB
LowD30
NVFP4
4
1.7 GB
MediumD30
Q4_K_M
4
1.8 GB
MediumD30
Q5_K_M
5
2.2 GB
HighD31
Q6_K
6
2.5 GB
HighD31
Q8_0
8
3.2 GB
Very HighD31
F16Best for your GPU
16
6.1 GB
MaximumD33

Get started

HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download hf-bartowski--llama-3-2-3b-instruct-gguf

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Llama 3.2 3B Instruct well

AppleMacBook Pro M4 Pro 64GBBudget pick
C99.3 tok/s decode

~$1,599 MSRP

AppleMacBook Pro M1 Max 64GBBest value
C103.9 tok/s decode

~$2,499 MSRP

AppleMac Studio M1 Ultra 64GBBiggest leap
C207.8 tok/s decode

~$3,999 MSRP

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