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NVIDIA L40S 48GB

VRAM
48 GB
FLAGSHIP
BANDWIDTH
864
GB/S
MODELS Q4
263/331
79%
7B Q4 SPEED
~99
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
~230
TOK/S
7B
~99
TOK/S
14B
~49
TOK/S
32B
~22
TOK/S
70B
~10
TOK/S
▸ SPECIFICATIONS
VRAM
48 GB
BANDWIDTH
864 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
183 TFLOPS
TDP
350W
MEMORY
GDDR6
ARCHITECTURE
Ada Lovelace
CUDA CORES
18,176
TENSOR CORES
568
PCIE
Gen 4 x16
MSRP
$7,500
217
FAST MODELS · >30 TOK/S
Real-time chat speed
263
USABLE · >10 TOK/S
Comfortable for all tasks
263
TOTAL COMPATIBLE
Fit in VRAM at Q4
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▸ COMPATIBLE MODELS· 263
S
nomic-embed-text-v1.5 100M0.1B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· CHAT
6912
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
GPT-2 124M0.124B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
5574
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 135M0.135B
SMOLLM·2K CTX· CHAT
5120
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
bge-large-en-v1.5 335M0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· CHAT
2063
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
mxbai-embed-large-v10.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
2063
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Snowflake Arctic Embed L0.335B
EMBEDDING·1K CTX· EMBEDDING
2063
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Medium 345M0.345B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
2003
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 360M0.36B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
1920
TOK/S · 1% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 0.5B0.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT
1382
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
1382
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 0.5B0.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
1382
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
BGE-M30.568B
EMBEDDING·8K CTX· EMBEDDING
1217
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen3 0.6B0.6B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
1152
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
GPT-2 Large 774M0.774B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
893
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen 3.5 0.8B0.8B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT· CODING· MULTILINGUAL
864
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Qwen3.5-0.8B0.9B
QWEN·256K CTX· CHAT
768
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
Falcon3-1B1B
FALCON·32K CTX· CHAT
691
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
InternLM2 1B1B
INTERNLM·32K CTX· CHAT
691
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
TinyLlama 1.1B1.1B
LLAMA·2K CTX· CHAT
628
TOK/S · 2% VRAM
S
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking1.2B
LFM·122K CTX· CHAT· REASONING· TOOL_USE
576
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Llama-3.2-1B1.2B
LLAMA·4K CTX· CHAT
576
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
DeepSeek Coder 1.3B1.3B
DEEPSEEK·16K CTX· CODING
532
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
EXAONE-4.0-1.2B1.3B
EXAONE·64K CTX· CHAT
532
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
OPT 1.3B1.3B
OPT·2K CTX· CHAT
532
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Phi-1 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CODING
532
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Phi-1.5 1.3B1.3B
PHI·2K CTX· CHAT· CODING
532
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
granite-4.0-h-tiny 6.9B6.9BMoE
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT
461
TOK/S · 10% VRAM
S
Falcon-H1 1.5B1.5B
FALCON·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
461
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
GPT-2 XL 1.5B1.5B
GPT2·1K CTX· CHAT
461
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· TOOL_USE· CODING
461
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Qwen2 Math 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·4K CTX· REASONING
461
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Qwen 2.5 1.5B1.5B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· CODING
461
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Yi Coder 1.5B1.5B
YI·125K CTX· CODING
461
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
stablelm-2-1_6b1.6B
STABLELM·4K CTX· CHAT
432
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Qwen3 1.7B1.7B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT· REASONING
407
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
SmolLM2 1.7B1.71B
SMOLLM·8K CTX· CHAT
404
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Qwen 1.5 1.8B1.8B
QWEN·32K CTX· CHAT
384
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Moondream2 1.9B1.9B
OTHER·2K CTX· VISION· CHAT
364
TOK/S · 3% VRAM
S
Gemma 1 2B2B
GEMMA·8K CTX· CHAT
346
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
S
Granite 3.0 2B2B
GRANITE·128K CTX· CHAT· CODING
346
TOK/S · 4% VRAM
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▸ DEVICE UNDER TEST

NVIDIA L40S 48GB48 GB VRAM.

L40S 48GB SPEC
BRAND
NVIDIA
VRAM
48 GB GDDR6
BANDWIDTH
864 GB/s
FP16 COMPUTE
183 TFLOPS
FP32 COMPUTE
91.6 TFLOPS
CUDA CORES
18,176
TENSOR CORES
568
TDP
350 W
ARCHITECTURE
Ada Lovelace
MSRP
$7500
▸ AI CAPABILITY
263/ 331 models @ Q4

With 48 GB VRAM and 864 GB/s bandwidth, this GPU handles models up to 66B parameters.

Speed ≈ bandwidth / model_size × efficiency. A 7B model at Q4 runs at ~99 tok/s.

§ 01TOP MODELS FOR L40S 48GB
263 FIT · SHOWING 20
MODELSIZEVRAM Q4TOK/SAVG
OPT 66B66B40.8 GB10
LLaMA 1 65B65.2B40.3 GB1142.6
Jamba 1.5 Mini 52B51.6B32.0 GB5824.2
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B48B29.8 GB23026.6
Nemotron-H 47B47B29.2 GB1584.6
Mixtral-8x7B46.7B29.0 GB5318.8
Nous-Hermes-2-Mixtral-8x7B-DPO46.7B29.0 GB5327.4
Dolphin 2.6 Mixtral 8x7B46.7B29.0 GB5323.8
Phi-3.5 MoE 42B41.9B26.1 GB10556.7
Falcon 40B40B24.9 GB1720.9
Qwen3.5-35B-A3B36B22.5 GB1948.5
c4ai-command-r-v01 35B35B21.9 GB2027.5
Qwen 3.5 35B A3B35B21.9 GB23053.3
Qwen 3.6 35B A3B35B21.9 GB23062.7
Nous Capybara 34B34.4B21.5 GB2042.0
Yi-1.5 34B34.4B21.5 GB2045.3
Falcon-H1 34B34B21.3 GB2066.1
CodeLlama 34B34B21.3 GB2025.4
Nous Hermes 2 34B34B21.3 GB2047.0
Phind CodeLlama 34B34B21.3 GB2068.1