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Nvidia logo Nvidia A100 40GB mieten.

Ampere 40GB VRAM 400W
AI models

Models that run on this GPU.

GPU-count + quantization recommendations covering fine-tuning, inference, and run-it-yourself scenarios on the Nvidia A100 40GB.

DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B

by DeepSeek
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
15B
Context
128K tokens

Qwen 2.5 14B

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
15B
Context
128K tokens

Qwen 3 14B

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
15B
Context
128K tokens

Phi-4

by Microsoft
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
15B
Context
16K tokens

Phi-3 Medium

by Microsoft
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
14B
Context
128K tokens

LLaVA 13B

by LLaVA Project
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
13B
Context
4K tokens

Code Llama 13B

by Meta AI
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
13B
Context
16K tokens

DeepSeek Coder V2 Lite

by DeepSeek
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
16B (2B active)
Context
128K tokens

Baichuan2-13B

by Baichuan Inc.
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
13B
Context
4K tokens

Mistral: Ministral 3 14B 2512

by Mistral AI
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
14B
Context
262K tokens

Qwen: Qwen3 14B

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
14B
Context
132K tokens

ReMM SLERP 13B

by Undi95
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
13B
Context
6K tokens

MythoMax 13B

by Gryphe
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
13B
Context
4K tokens

Cogito V1 Preview Qwen 14B

by Deepcogito
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
14B
Context
131K tokens

Deepcoder 14B Preview

by Togethercomputer
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
14B
Context
131K tokens

Qwen2.5 14B

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
14B
Context
131K tokens

Qwen3 14B Base

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
14B
Context
33K tokens

Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
14B
Context
33K tokens

Ministral 3 14B Instruct 2512

by Mistral AI
FP16
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
14B
Context
262K tokens

Gemma 3 27B

by Google DeepMind
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
27B (27B active)
Context
128K tokens

Gemma 2 27B

by Google DeepMind
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
27B
Context
8K tokens

Qwen: Qwen3.6 27B

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
27B
Context
262K tokens

Qwen: Qwen3.5-27B

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
27B
Context
262K tokens

NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B

by Nvidia
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
262K tokens

AllenAI: Olmo 3 32B Think

by Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
66K tokens

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
262K tokens

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Thinking

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
131K tokens

Qwen: Qwen3 VL 30B A3B Instruct

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
262K tokens

Tongyi DeepResearch 30B A3B

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
131K tokens

Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Thinking 2507

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
131K tokens

Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
160K tokens

Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
262K tokens

Z.ai: GLM 4 32B

by Zhipu AI
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
128K tokens

Qwen: Qwen3 30B A3B

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
131K tokens

Qwen: Qwen3 32B

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
131K tokens

Baidu: ERNIE 4.5 VL 28B A3B

by Baidu
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
28B
Context
131K tokens

Qwen2.5 32B

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
131K tokens

Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3b Reasoning Fp8

by Nvidia
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
131K tokens

Cogito V1 Preview Qwen 32B

by Deepcogito
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
131K tokens

Gemma 3 27B It

by Google DeepMind
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
27B
Context
66K tokens

Qwen QwQ-32B

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
131K tokens

Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
16K tokens

Qwen3 30B A3b Base

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
33K tokens

Gemma 3 27B Pt

by Google DeepMind
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
27B

Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 Lora

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
262K tokens

Nvidia Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3b Bf16

by Nvidia
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
262K tokens

Medgemma 27B Text It

by Google DeepMind
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
27B
Context
131K tokens

Qwen2.5 32B Instruct

by Alibaba (Qwen Team)
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
33K tokens

Gemma 3 27B It Lora

by Google DeepMind
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
27B

Gemma 4 31B It Lora

by Google DeepMind
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
31B
Context
262K tokens

Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning

by Nvidia
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
30B
Context
262K tokens

gemma-4-31B-it-turbo

by Google DeepMind
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
31B
Context
262K tokens

GLM-5.1

by Zhipu AI
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
203K tokens

ByteDance Seed: Seed-2.0-Lite

by Bytedance Seed
FP8
Required GPUs
1× Nvidia A100 40GB
Total VRAM
40 GB
Parameters
32B
Context
262K tokens
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FAQ

AI models on this GPU.

What AI models can I run on a Nvidia A100 40GB?
The grid above lists every open-weights model with a recommended GPU configuration for this card. Each row tells you the minimum GPU count and the quantization level (FP16, FP8, INT8, INT4) needed to load the model in 40GB of VRAM.
What's the VRAM minimum to run a model on the Nvidia A100 40GB?
Rule of thumb: a model needs roughly (parameters × bytes-per-weight × 1.2) of VRAM to load, plus headroom for the KV cache during inference. FP16 = 2 bytes/weight, FP8/INT8 = 1 byte, INT4 = 0.5 bytes. A 70B model at FP16 needs ~168GB; at INT4 it drops to ~42GB and fits a single high-VRAM card.
How does quantization (FP16 vs FP8 vs INT4) affect what fits?
Lower-precision quantization shrinks the memory footprint nearly linearly with the bit count. The trade-off is output quality: FP16 is the reference, FP8 is usually indistinguishable for most prompts, INT8 introduces small quality losses, INT4 is noticeably degraded on reasoning-heavy tasks but fine for chat. The badge on each row tells you which level the recommendation assumes.
Can I fine-tune on the Nvidia A100 40GB or only do inference?
Fine-tuning needs 4–8× more VRAM than inference at the same model size — gradients, optimizer state, and activations all live in memory. LoRA / QLoRA cut that overhead dramatically (often 4–10×). The notes column flags whether a row is an inference-only recommendation or includes a fine-tuning path.
Where do these GPU-count recommendations come from?
We curate them from official model cards, community benchmark threads (r/LocalLLaMA, HuggingFace forum), and known-good configurations published by the model makers. Each recommendation has been verified to load at the stated quantization on the listed GPU count — though throughput and context-length still vary by workload.