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Can the Tesla M40 (24GB, used) run LLAMA4 Maverick 400B A17B?

NO

No. 24GB of memory can't hold the 307GB working set this model needs. A smaller quant or a bigger machine is required.

~0.33–0.59 tok/s

weights 245GB + KV cache 0.75GB at 4k context vs ~24GB usable → no. 245.8 GB vs 24 GB usable — does not fit

computed roofline: 288 GB/s × 0.28–0.50 efficiency window / 245.0GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

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Specs

model file245GB (GGUF Q4_K_M)
minimum memory307GB working set
this machine24GB GDDR5, 288 GB/s
paramsMaverick 400B A17B
licensellama4 (gated on HF)
price$55

Run it

model files: hugging face ↗

easy run: ollama pull llama4:maverick

runs with: ollama · llama.cpp · koboldcpp · lm studio

Alternatives

ASUS ExpertCenter Pro ET900N G3 (GB300) — cheapest machine that runs it ($60000)

every model the Tesla M40 (24GB, used) can run — full list

tesla-p40 — the next step up from this machine's GPU

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