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Home/StarCoder 15B/on NVIDIA A30 24GB

Can it run?

Can NVIDIA A30 24GB run StarCoder 15B?

BGood

Runs well

Using Q5_K_M in Ollama

Capabilities:

Fit status

Runs well

Decode

68.7 tok/s

TTFT

2817 ms

Safe context

8K

Memory

16.7 GB / 24.0 GB

Memory breakdown

Weights10.8 GB
KV Cache2.3 GB
Runtime1.2 GB
Headroom2.4 GB

Performance by workload

WorkloadGradeFitDecodeTTFTContext
Agentic CodingBRuns well68.7 tok/s4097 ms8K
ChatBRuns well68.7 tok/s1536 ms8K
CodingBRuns well68.7 tok/s2817 ms8K
RAGBRuns well68.7 tok/s5121 ms8K
ReasoningBRuns well68.7 tok/s3329 ms8K

Quantization options

How StarCoder 15B (15B params) fits at each quantization level on NVIDIA A30 24GB (24.0 GB usable).

QuantBitsVRAMQualityFit
Q2_K
2
5.9 GB
LowD35
Q3_K_S
3
7.4 GB
LowD36
NVFP4
4
8.4 GB
MediumD37
Q4_K_M
4
9.2 GB
MediumD38
Q5_K_M
5
10.8 GB
HighD39
Q6_K
6
12.3 GB
HighC40
Q8_0Best for your GPU
8
16.1 GB
Very HighC44
F16
16
30.7 GB
MaximumF0

Get started

Ollama
ollama run starcoder-15b
HuggingFace
huggingface-cli download starcoder-15b
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