▸ NVIDIA· AMPERE

NVIDIA A40 48GB

VRAM

48 GB

FLAGSHIP

BANDWIDTH

696

GB/S

MODELS Q4

263/331

79%

7B Q4 SPEED

~80

BLAZING

▸ MODEL COVERAGE @ Q479% OF ALL

▸ ESTIMATED SPEED· BY MODEL SIZE @ Q4

Average speeds at Q4 quantization. Actual performance varies by model architecture and context length.

3B

~186

TOK/S

7B

~80

TOK/S

14B

~40

TOK/S

32B

~17

TOK/S

70B

~8

TOK/S

▸ SPECIFICATIONS

VRAM

48 GB

BANDWIDTH

696 GB/s

FP16 COMPUTE

149.7 TFLOPS

TDP

300W

MEMORY

GDDR6

ARCHITECTURE

Ampere

CUDA CORES

10,752

TENSOR CORES

336

PCIE

Gen 4 x16

MSRP

$4,650

211

FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S

Real-time chat speed

261

USABLE · >10 TOK/S

Comfortable for all tasks

263

TOTAL COMPATIBLE

Fit in VRAM at Q4

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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 263

nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B

EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 1% VRAM

GPT-2 124M0.124B

GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 1% VRAM

SmolLM2 135M0.135B

SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 1% VRAM

bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B

EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 1% VRAM

mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B

EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING

TOK/S · 1% VRAM

Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B

EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING

TOK/S · 1% VRAM

GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B

GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 1% VRAM

SmolLM2 360M0.36B

SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 1% VRAM

Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B

FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B

GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B

QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B

QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B

LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 2% VRAM

LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B

LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

Llama-3.2-1B1.2B

LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B

DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B

EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

OPT·2K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

PHI·2K CTX· CODING

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B

PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

granite-4.0-h-tiny 6.9B6.9BMoE

GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 10% VRAM

Falcon-H1 1.5B1.5B

FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B

GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· CODING

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B

QWEN·4K CTX· REASONING

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· CODING

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B

YI·125K CTX· CODING

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B

STABLELM·4K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B

SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B

QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

Moondream2 1.9B1.9B

OTHER·2K CTX· VISION· CHAT

TOK/S · 3% VRAM

GEMMA·8K CTX· CHAT

TOK/S · 4% VRAM

Granite 3.0 2B2B

GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING

TOK/S · 4% VRAM

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▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

NVIDIA A40 48GB — 48 GB VRAM.

▸ A40 48GB SPEC

BRAND: NVIDIA
VRAM: 48 GB GDDR6
BANDWIDTH: 696 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE: 149.7 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE: 37.4 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES: 10,752
TENSOR CORES: 336
TDP: 300 W
ARCHITECTURE: Ampere
MSRP: $4650

▸ AI CAPABILITY

263/ 331 models @ Q4

With 48 GB VRAM and 696 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 66B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~80 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR A40 48GB

263 FIT · SHOWING 20

MODEL	SIZE	VRAM Q4	TOK/S	AVG
OPT 66B	66B	40.8 GB	8	—
LLaMA 1 65B	65.2B	40.3 GB	9	42.6
Jamba 1.5 Mini 52B	51.6B	32.0 GB	46	24.2
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B	48B	29.8 GB	186	26.6
Nemotron-H 47B	47B	29.2 GB	12	84.6
Mixtral-8x7B	46.7B	29.0 GB	43	18.8
Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO	46.7B	29.0 GB	43	27.4
Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B	46.7B	29.0 GB	43	23.8
Phi-3.5 MoE 42B	41.9B	26.1 GB	84	56.7
Falcon 40B	40B	24.9 GB	14	20.9
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B	36B	22.5 GB	15	48.5
c4ai-command-r-v01 35B	35B	21.9 GB	16	27.5
Qwen 3.5 35B A3B	35B	21.9 GB	186	53.3
Qwen 3.6 35B A3B	35B	21.9 GB	186	62.7
Nous Capybara 34B	34.4B	21.5 GB	16	42.0
Yi-1.5 34B	34.4B	21.5 GB	16	45.3
Falcon-H1 34B	34B	21.3 GB	16	66.1
CodeLlama 34B	34B	21.3 GB	16	25.4
Nous Hermes 2 34B	34B	21.3 GB	16	47.0
Phind CodeLlama 34B	34B	21.3 GB	16	68.1