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Home/Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct/on RTX A5000 24GB

Can it run?

Can RTX A5000 24GB run Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

110.2 tok/s

TTFT

1757 ms

Safe context

39K

Memory

9.7 GB / 24.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights4.9 GB
KV Cache1.3 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom2.4 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well110.2 tok/s2556 ms70K
ChatCRuns well110.2 tok/s959 ms21K
CodingCRuns well110.2 tok/s1757 ms39K
RAGCRuns well110.2 tok/s3195 ms70K
ReasoningCRuns well110.2 tok/s2077 ms39K

Quantization options

How Meta Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (8B params) fits at each quantization level on RTX A5000 24GB (24.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
3.1 GB
LowD32
Q3_K_S
3
3.9 GB
LowD33
NVFP4
4
4.5 GB
MediumD34
Q4_K_M
4
4.9 GB
MediumD34
Q5_K_M
5
5.8 GB
HighD35
Q6_K
6
6.6 GB
HighD35
Q8_0
8
8.6 GB
Very HighD37
F16Best for your GPU
16
16.4 GB
MaximumC44

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