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Home/Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct/on RTX A2000 12GB

Can it run?

Can RTX A2000 12GB run Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

46.0 tok/s

TTFT

4206 ms

Safe context

23K

Memory

8.5 GB / 12.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights4.9 GB
KV Cache1.3 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom1.2 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well46.0 tok/s6117 ms39K
ChatCRuns well46.0 tok/s2294 ms12K
CodingCRuns well46.0 tok/s4206 ms23K
RAGCRuns well46.0 tok/s7647 ms39K
ReasoningCRuns well46.0 tok/s4970 ms23K

Quantization options

How Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (8B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX A2000 12GB (12.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
3.1 GB
LowD35
Q3_K_S
3
3.9 GB
LowD36
NVFP4
4
4.5 GB
MediumD38
Q4_K_M
4
4.9 GB
MediumD38
Q5_K_M
5
5.8 GB
HighD40
Q6_K
6
6.6 GB
HighC41
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
8.6 GB
Very HighC45
F16
16
16.4 GB
MaximumF0

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