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All estimates are approximations based on mathematical models and public specifications. Actual performance may vary. Do not make purchasing decisions based solely on these estimates.

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Home/Llama 3.2 3B Instruct/on NVIDIA H20 96GB

Can it run?

Can NVIDIA H20 96GB run Llama 3.2 3B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q5_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

1530.0 tok/s

TTFT

350 ms

Safe context

112K

Memory

13.8 GB / 96.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights2.2 GB
KV Cache0.8 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom9.6 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well1530.0 tok/s350 ms221K
ChatCRuns well1530.0 tok/s350 ms56K
CodingCRuns well1530.0 tok/s350 ms112K
RAGCRuns well1530.0 tok/s350 ms221K
ReasoningCRuns well1530.0 tok/s350 ms112K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.2 3B Instruct (3B params) fits at each quantization level on NVIDIA H20 96GB (96.0 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
HighD30
Q6_K
6
2.5 GB
HighD30
Q8_0
8
3.2 GB
Very HighD30
F16Best for your GPU
16
6.1 GB
MaximumD31

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

AppleMac Studio M3 Ultra 256GBBudget pick
C263 tok/s decode

 

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