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Can the NVIDIA RTX A6000 run llama3.1 8B?

FULL

5.4 GB needed of 48 GB usable — headroom for context

48GB · Ampere · model file 4.9GB · 8B

~72–120 tok/s

computed roofline: 768 GB/s × 0.46–0.76 efficiency window / 4.9GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run llama3.1 8B on instead

Tesla P100 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs llama3.1 8B fully ($135)

RTX 4090 (24GB, used) — upgrade path machine

every model the NVIDIA RTX A6000 can run — full list

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