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NVIDIA A30 (24GB)

The NVIDIA A30 (24GB) features 24 GB of dedicated VRAM and 933 GB/s memory bandwidth, supporting CUDA and TensorRT-LLM runtimes for full-precision and quantized inference.

Memory

24 GB

Usable Memory Ceiling

24 GB

Bandwidth

933 GB/s

Max Inference Class

32B Models (Q4)

TDP

165W

VRAM Scaling by Context Length

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

DeepSeek-R1 3B (3B)Mistral-7B-v0.1 (7.3B)Mistral-Small-2501 (24B)Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 74B A9B (74B)

Precision:

Best Models to Run on NVIDIA A30 (24GB)

Inference throughput, memory compatibility, and generation speeds for open-weights LLMs on NVIDIA A30 (24GB).

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Context:

KV Cache:

GPUs:

RankModelParametersPrecisionTPS (Approx.)TTFTCan Run

#36

Qwen 3.8 27B

27B

INT4

45 tok/s

~2.0s

#80

K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B

36B (4B active)

INT4

172 tok/s

~435 ms

#86

Qwen3.5-27B

27B

INT4

45 tok/s

~2.0s

#93

Sarvam-30B

32B (2.4B active)

INT4

232 tok/s

~280 ms

#99

Muse Glimmer 30B

30B

INT4

41 tok/s

~2.3s

#102

Phi-4 Reasoning Plus

14B

INT4
Q8

59 tok/s

40 tok/s

~1.1s

~1.1s

#103

Qwen3.6 35B A3B

35B (3B active)

INT4

199 tok/s

~354 ms

#105

MiMo V2 Flash

15B (309B active)

INT4
Q8

4 tok/s

2 tok/s

~22.2s

~24.4s

#110

Gemma 4 26B A4B

25.2B (3.8B active)

INT4

193 tok/s

~366 ms

#120

Qwen3.5-35B-A3B

35B (3B active)

INT4

199 tok/s

~354 ms

#121

Qwen3.5-9B

9B

INT4
Q8
FP16

117 tok/s

72 tok/s

36 tok/s

~695 ms

~700 ms

~773 ms

#127

K2 Horizon 7B

7B

INT4
Q8
FP16

143 tok/s

89 tok/s

49 tok/s

~544 ms

~548 ms

~558 ms

#130

Gemma 4 12B

11.95B

INT4
Q8

68 tok/s

46 tok/s

~922 ms

~928 ms

#136

Qwen3.5-4B

4B

INT4
Q8
FP16

212 tok/s

140 tok/s

80 tok/s

~320 ms

~322 ms

~328 ms

#139

GPT-OSS 20B

21B (3.6B active)

INT4

94 tok/s

~348 ms

#140

GLM-4V

9B

INT4
Q8
FP16

85 tok/s

59 tok/s

33 tok/s

~698 ms

~703 ms

~776 ms

#145

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano 30B-A3B

3.5B (30B active)

INT4
Q8
FP16

39 tok/s

23 tok/s

12 tok/s

~2.2s

~2.2s

~2.2s

#150

Qwen3-30B-A3B

30B (3B active)

INT4

212 tok/s

~320 ms

#152

Granite 4.2 8B

8B

INT4
Q8
FP16

129 tok/s

79 tok/s

43 tok/s

~619 ms

~624 ms

~634 ms

#157

Gemma 4 E4B

8B

INT4
Q8
FP16

129 tok/s

79 tok/s

43 tok/s

~619 ms

~624 ms

~634 ms

Inference Capacity

Maximum model parameter class runnable by weight precision.

Context:

4-bit

Q4

32B Models

8-bit

Q8

14B Models

16-bit

FP16

8B 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 A30 (24GB).

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 933 GB/s aggregate bandwidth, batch size 1 inference operates in a memory-bandwidth bound regime. Generates approximately 207 tok/s on an 8B Q4 model and 25 tok/s on a 70B Q4 model.

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