Can RTX 6000 Ada 48GB run Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct?

NVIDIA · 48 GB GDDR6 · 960 GB/s bandwidth · Meta · 8.0B · model ctx up to 128K

Yes — the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB (48 GB GDDR6) can run Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct. At Q4 with the default 8K context it needs ≈ 7.0 GB VRAM (weights 4.4 GB + KV cache 1.6 GB + 1 GB runtime overhead), which fits within 48 GB. Decode at Q4/8K: ≈ 138.6 tok/s (measured, batch 1). FP16 (≈ 18.6 GB) also fits, at ≈ 21.0 tok/s (estimated). Estimates come from memory-bandwidth math; rows tagged measured override estimates. Relative ranking is more reliable than absolute tok/s. Methodology.

Fit & speed by quant and context

Quant	Context	VRAM needed	Fits?	tok/s (decode)
Q4	4K	6.2 GB	Yes	138.6 measured
Q4	8K default	7.0 GB	Yes	138.6 measured
Q4	32K	11.8 GB	Yes	138.6 measured
FP16	4K	17.8 GB	Yes	21.0 est.
FP16	8K default	18.6 GB	Yes	21.0 est.
FP16	32K	23.4 GB	Yes	21.0 est.

Fits = weights + KV(ctx) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM. Measured anchors are context-agnostic; the fit verdict is recomputed per context. A missing tok/s means the model is far beyond this card (offload-only territory).

VRAM breakdown at 8K context

Quant	Weights	KV cache	Overhead	Total needed	RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM
Q4	4.4 GB	1.6 GB	1 GB	7.0 GB	48 GB
FP16	16.0 GB	1.6 GB	1 GB	18.6 GB	48 GB

Other GPUs that run Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

• B200 192GB SXM — ≈636.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• MI300X 192GB — ≈421.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• H200 141GB SXM5 — ≈381.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• H100 80GB SXM5 — ≈266.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• Gaudi 3 128GB — ≈260.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• RTX 5090 32GB — ≈214.3 tok/s Q4 measured
• A100 80GB SXM4 — ≈162.2 tok/s Q4 est.
• RTX 5080 16GB — ≈136.2 tok/s Q4 measured

All GPUs for Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct →

Other models for the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB

• Qwen3-0.6B — ≈763.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-3-1b-it — ≈610.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct — ≈509.1 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-1.7B — ≈305.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-30B-A3B — ≈203.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct — ≈203.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• GLM-4.7-Flash — ≈203.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 — ≈203.6 tok/s Q4 est.

All models on the RTX 6000 Ada 48GB →