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Can the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB run Pythia-Chat-Base-7B-v0.16?

Yes โ€” here's how fast and up to what context, with real measured numbers.

Pythia-Chat-Base-7B-v0.16 on the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB

QuantFits?Max contextSpeedBeyond context
FP16 yes 443k 106.3-126.7 t/s ~2.1-2.5 (slow)
Q8 yes 497k 212.6-253.4 t/s ~4.2-5 (slow)
Q4 yes 520k 379.7-452.5 t/s ~7.4-8.9 (slow)

Estimate (memory-bound). Beyond "max context" the KV cache spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and speed drops to the "beyond" figure.

FAQ

Can the NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB run Pythia-Chat-Base-7B-v0.16?โ–ถ

Yes. At Q4 it generates ~379.7-452.5 tok/s and fits up to 520k context; beyond that it spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and slows to ~7.4-8.9 tok/s.

How much context fits?โ–ถ

At Q4, up to about 520k tokens stay in fast memory; longer context spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and throughput collapses.