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Home/Llama 3.1 70B/on NVIDIA A100 80GB

Can it run?

Can NVIDIA A100 80GB run Llama 3.1 70B?

CUsable

Runs well

Using Q4_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

40.1 tok/s

TTFT

4827 ms

Safe context

20K

Memory

62.8 GB / 80.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights42.7 GB
KV Cache10.9 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom8.0 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingCTight fit40.1 tok/s7020 ms35K
ChatCRuns well40.1 tok/s2633 ms11K
CodingCRuns well40.1 tok/s4827 ms20K
RAGCTight fit40.1 tok/s8776 ms35K
ReasoningCRuns well40.1 tok/s5704 ms20K

Quantization options

How Llama 3.1 70B (70B params) fits at each quantization level on NVIDIA A100 80GB (80.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
27.3 GB
LowD37
Q3_K_S
3
34.3 GB
LowD39
NVFP4
4
39.2 GB
MediumD40
Q4_K_M
4
42.7 GB
MediumC41
Q5_K_M
5
50.4 GB
HighC43
Q6_KBest for your GPU
6
57.4 GB
HighC44
Q8_0
8
74.9 GB
Very HighC44
F16
16
143.5 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

Ollama
ollama run llama-3.1-70b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download llama-3.1-70b

Upgrade options

Hardware that runs Llama 3.1 70B well

NVIDIANVIDIA GH200 96GBBudget pick
B75.9 tok/s decode

 

NVIDIANVIDIA H20 96GBBiggest leap
B75.9 tok/s decode

 

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