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Can the NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB run gpt-sw3-40b?

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

gpt-sw3-40b on the NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB

QuantFits?Max contextSpeedBeyond context
FP16 no โ€” โ€” โ€”
Q8 yes 98k 36.5-43.5 t/s ~0.7-0.9 (slow)
Q4 yes 152k 65.2-77.7 t/s ~1.3-1.6 (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 H100 PCIe 80GB run gpt-sw3-40b?โ–ถ

Yes. At Q4 it generates ~65.2-77.7 tok/s and fits up to 152k context; beyond that it spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and slows to ~1.3-1.6 tok/s.

How much context fits?โ–ถ

At Q4, up to about 152k tokens stay in fast memory; longer context spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and throughput collapses.