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Home/Hermes 4.3 36B/on NVIDIA L40 48GB

Can it run?

Can NVIDIA L40 48GB run Hermes 4.3 36B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

30.7 tok/s

TTFT

6309 ms

Safe context

23K

Memory

33.6 GB / 48.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights22.0 GB
KV Cache5.6 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom4.8 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCRuns well30.7 tok/s9176 ms39K
ChatCRuns well30.7 tok/s3441 ms12K
CodingCRuns well30.7 tok/s6309 ms23K
RAGCRuns well30.7 tok/s11470 ms39K
ReasoningCRuns well30.7 tok/s7456 ms23K

Quantization options

How Hermes 4.3 36B (36B params) fits at each quantization level on NVIDIA L40 48GB (48.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
14.0 GB
LowD35
Q3_K_S
3
17.6 GB
LowD37
NVFP4
4
20.2 GB
MediumD38
Q4_K_M
4
22.0 GB
MediumD39
Q5_K_M
5
25.9 GB
HighC41
Q6_K
6
29.5 GB
HighC42
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
38.5 GB
Very HighC44
F16
16
73.8 GB
MaximumF0

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