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Can the NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB run Multilingual-E5-large?

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

Multilingual-E5-large on the NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB

QuantFits?Max contextSpeedBeyond context
FP16 yes 1083k 2183.5-2602.2 t/s ~26.1-31.1 (slow)
Q8 yes 1092k 4367-5204.5 t/s ~52.1-62.1 (slow)
Q4 yes 1095k 7798.2-9293.7 t/s ~93.1-111 (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 SXM5 80GB run Multilingual-E5-large?โ–ถ

Yes. At Q4 it generates ~7798.2-9293.7 tok/s and fits up to 1095k context; beyond that it spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and slows to ~93.1-111 tok/s.

How much context fits?โ–ถ

At Q4, up to about 1095k tokens stay in fast memory; longer context spills to system RAM offload (depends on your system RAM) and throughput collapses.