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NVIDIA A100 (40GB)

The NVIDIA A100 (40GB) features 40 GB of dedicated VRAM and 1555 GB/s memory bandwidth, supporting CUDA and TensorRT-LLM runtimes for full-precision and quantized inference.

Memory

40 GB

Usable Memory Ceiling

40 GB

Bandwidth

1555 GB/s

Max Inference Class

32B Models (Q4)

TDP

400W

VRAM Scaling by Context Length

Estimated memory requirements as context length increases. Curves crossing above the reference line indicate Out of Memory (OOM).

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Precision:

Best Models to Run on NVIDIA A100 (40GB)

Inference throughput, memory compatibility, and generation speeds for open-weights LLMs on NVIDIA A100 (40GB).

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Context:

KV Cache:

GPUs:

RankModelParametersPrecisionTPS (Approx.)TTFTCan Run

#36

Qwen 3.8 27B

27B

INT4
Q8

72 tok/s

42 tok/s

~1.1s

~1.1s

#80

K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B

36B (4B active)

INT4
Q8

255 tok/s

178 tok/s

~214 ms

~234 ms

#86

Qwen3.5-27B

27B

INT4
Q8

72 tok/s

42 tok/s

~1.1s

~1.1s

#93

Sarvam-30B

32B (2.4B active)

INT4
Q8

314 tok/s

237 tok/s

~150 ms

~163 ms

#99

Muse Glimmer 30B

30B

INT4
Q8

66 tok/s

36 tok/s

~1.2s

~1.3s

#102

Phi-4 Reasoning Plus

14B

INT4
Q8
FP16

93 tok/s

64 tok/s

35 tok/s

~572 ms

~577 ms

~639 ms

#103

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

35B (3B active)

INT4
Q8

289 tok/s

210 tok/s

~175 ms

~190 ms

#105

MiMo V2 Flash

15B (309B active)

INT4
Q8
FP16

7 tok/s

4 tok/s

2 tok/s

~11.8s

~11.9s

~13.2s

#110

Gemma 4 26B A4B

25.2B (3.8B active)

INT4
Q8

270 tok/s

198 tok/s

~196 ms

~197 ms

#117

Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B A9B

74B

INT4

26 tok/s

~3.4s

#120

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

35B (3B active)

INT4
Q8

289 tok/s

210 tok/s

~175 ms

~190 ms

#121

Qwen3.5-9B

9B

INT4
Q8
FP16

175 tok/s

111 tok/s

62 tok/s

~370 ms

~373 ms

~381 ms

#127

K2 Horizon 7B

7B

INT4
Q8
FP16

209 tok/s

136 tok/s

77 tok/s

~290 ms

~293 ms

~298 ms

#130

Gemma 4 12B

11.95B

INT4
Q8
FP16

105 tok/s

73 tok/s

43 tok/s

~491 ms

~495 ms

~504 ms

#136

Qwen3.5-4B

4B

INT4
Q8
FP16

292 tok/s

205 tok/s

124 tok/s

~171 ms

~173 ms

~176 ms

#139

GPT-OSS 20B

21B (3.6B active)

INT4
Q8

143 tok/s

125 tok/s

~187 ms

~188 ms

#140

GLM-4V

9B

INT4
Q8
FP16

131 tok/s

93 tok/s

56 tok/s

~372 ms

~375 ms

~382 ms

#145

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B

3.5B (30B active)

INT4
Q8
FP16

63 tok/s

37 tok/s

20 tok/s

~1.2s

~1.2s

~1.2s

#150

Qwen3-30B-A3B

30B (3B active)

INT4
Q8

292 tok/s

212 tok/s

~171 ms

~187 ms

#152

Granite 4.2 8B

8B

INT4
Q8
FP16

191 tok/s

123 tok/s

69 tok/s

~330 ms

~333 ms

~339 ms

Inference Capacity

Maximum model parameter class runnable by weight precision.

Context:

4-bit

Q4

32B Models

8-bit

Q8

32B Models

16-bit

FP16

14B Models

Fine-Tuning Capacity

Hardware capacity for local training and adapter fine-tuning.

Context Length:

QLoRA

4-bit

32B Models

LoRA

16-bit

14B Models

Full Parameter Training

3B Models

Workload Recommendations

Guidance for optimal precision and operational ceilings on NVIDIA A100 (40GB).

Inference Sweet Spot

Optimized for 14B models at uncompressed or Q8 precision, and 32B models at Q4 with up to 32k context.

Bandwidth & Speed Profile

With 1555 GB/s aggregate bandwidth, batch size 1 inference operates in a memory-bandwidth bound regime. Generates approximately 346 tok/s on an 8B Q4 model and 41 tok/s on a 70B Q4 model.

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