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Can the NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM run llama3.2 1B?

FULL

1.4 GB needed of 80 GB usable — headroom for context

80GB · Ampere · model file 1.3GB · 1B

~720–1200 tok/s

computed roofline: 2039 GB/s × 0.46–0.76 efficiency window / 1.3GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points. Small models (under ~4.5B) run BELOW these bands — kernel-launch overhead keeps them from saturating bandwidth (measured against community medians, 09-06).

Run llama3.2 1B on instead

Tesla M60 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs llama3.2 1B fully ($35)

H100 80GB PCIe (used) — upgrade path machine

every model the NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM can run — full list

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2026-09-24 · ← all models on the NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory