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NVIDIA H100 80GB PCIe

80 GB decides what fits. 2000 GB/s decides how fast it runs once it does.

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Quick answer
The NVIDIA H100 80GB PCIe fits 244 of 320 sized models entirely in its 80 GB; the largest widely used one is Ling-3.0-flash (78.2 GB at Q4_K_M). Memory decides what fits; its 2000 GB/s of bandwidth decides how fast it answers.

At 8,192 tokens of context with the whole model in device memory. Speeds are estimates from memory bandwidth, not benchmarks run on this card.

NVIDIA H100 80GB PCIe · 80 GB · 2000 GB/s · Q4_K_M where published · 8,192 tokensSpecificationpublished dataDecode speedestimate

244 of 320 fit entirely

244 of the 320 models the engine can size fit entirely in device memory at Q4_K_M where it is published, otherwise the nearest published format, and 8,192 tokens. 2 run with some layers on system memory (32 GB assumed), and 74 do not run at all.

76%of the models the engine can size fit entirely
80GB of device memory
2000GB/s memory bandwidth
2run with system memory
74do not run at 8,192 tokens

Featured models · Q4_K_M at 8,192 tokens, including offload

ModelNeedsVerdictDecodeCalculator
Qwen3.5-2B2.3B parameters2.32 GBfits~1102 tok/sOpen →
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF164.0B parameters3.46 GBfits~511 tok/sOpen →
Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct8.8B parameters7.04 GBfits~231 tok/sOpen →
Qwen3.5-9B9.7B parameters7.05 GBfits~280 tok/sOpen →
gemma-4-12B-it12B parameters9.54 GBfits~166 tok/sOpen →
gpt-oss-20b21B parameters13.8 GBfits~544 tok/sOpen →
Qwen3.8-27B28B parameters18.6 GBfits~92 tok/sOpen →
Qwen3.6-27B28B parameters18.6 GBfits~92 tok/sOpen →
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct49B parameters30.4 GBfits~727 tok/sOpen →
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next180B parameters111.6 GBneeds 32.2 GB of system RAM; 32 GB assumeddoes not runOpen →
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp305B parameters188.1 GBneeds 108.9 GB of system RAM; 32 GB assumeddoes not runOpen →
GLM-5.3-Flash321B parameters198.3 GBneeds 118.4 GB of system RAM; 32 GB assumeddoes not runOpen →

These examples are selected from prominent labs using the catalogue’s latest Hugging Face 30-day downloads and repository-creation freshness signal, with newer releases guaranteed a place. Offloaded rows assume 32 GB of system RAM, and a speed is only shown for a row that runs. Fitting in memory is not the same as loading: whether the runtime and version you have supports each architecture and format on this machine has not been tested here. Each “Open” link carries the same model, format, context and RAM into the calculator.

Fits entirely in NVIDIA H100 80GB PCIe memory — 244 of 320 sized models

Every model that fitswhole model resident · offload off

The most demanding model that fits is Devstral-2-123B-Instruct-2512 at Q4_K_M: 78.6 GB of the 80 GB, leaving 1.35 GB spare.

Fully resident at 8,192 tokens (or the model’s own maximum, where that is shorter), offload off, at 2000 GB/s. Each row is a run of the engine for this configuration; the rows start with current, prominent releases and “fits” is memory, not a tested runtime. Older or less prominent models remain available through this search and “Show all”.

Showing 40 of 244 models that fit.

ModelFormatNeedsSpareDecodeDownloads / 30dCalculator
Qwen3.8-27BQwen · 28B paramsQ4_K_M18.6 GB61.4 GB~92 tok/s6.9MOpen →
gemma-4-26B-A4B-itGoogle · 26B paramsQ4_K_M16.8 GB63.2 GB~511 tok/s13MOpen →
gemma-4-31B-itGoogle · 31B paramsQ4_K_M22.2 GB57.8 GB~66 tok/s9.9MOpen →
Qwen3.5-9BQwen · 9.7B paramsQ4_K_M7.05 GB73.0 GB~280 tok/s9MOpen →
Qwen3.5-4BQwen · 4.7B paramsQ4_K_M3.98 GB76.0 GB~504 tok/s7.8MOpen →
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BQwen · 36B paramsQ4_K_M23.1 GB56.9 GB~734 tok/s3.3MOpen →
gemma-4-12B-itGoogle · 12B paramsQ4_K_M9.54 GB70.5 GB~166 tok/s1.9MOpen →
Qwen3.6-27BQwen · 28B paramsQ4_K_M18.6 GB61.4 GB~92 tok/s2.5MOpen →
Qwen3.5-2BQwen · 2.3B paramsQ4_K_M2.32 GB77.7 GB~1102 tok/s4.9MOpen →
gemma-4-E4B-itGoogle · 8.0B paramsQ4_K_M5.86 GB74.1 GB~450 tok/s4.4MOpen →
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16NVIDIA · 32B paramsQ4_K_M20.3 GB59.7 GB~70 tok/s530KOpen →
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16NVIDIA · 4.0B paramsQ4_K_M3.46 GB76.5 GB~511 tok/s3.4MOpen →
gemma-4-E2B-itGoogle · 5.1B paramsQ4_K_M4.02 GB76.0 GB~1188 tok/s3MOpen →
Qwen3.5-0.8BQwen · 873M paramsQ4_K_M1.46 GB78.5 GB~2415 tok/s2.6MOpen →
Qwen3-VL-8B-InstructQwen · 8.8B paramsQ4_K_M7.04 GB73.0 GB~231 tok/s14.6MOpen →
Qwen3.5-27BQwen · 28B paramsQ4_K_M18.6 GB61.4 GB~92 tok/s1.9MOpen →
North-Micro-Vision-InstructCohereLabs · 2.5B paramsQ4_K_M2.99 GB77.0 GB~725 tok/s180.7KOpen →
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQwen · 36B paramsQ4_K_M23.1 GB56.9 GB~734 tok/s1.6MOpen →
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16NVIDIA · 124B paramsQ4_K_M76.9 GB3.08 GB~18 tok/sAbout reading pace1.2MOpen →
granite-4.2-8bIBM · 8.8B paramsQ4_K_M7.49 GB72.5 GB~210 tok/s128.4KOpen →
GLM-4.7-Flashzai-org · 31B paramsQ4_K_M20.4 GB59.6 GB~69 tok/s1.8MOpen →
granite-4.1-3bIBM · 3.4B paramsQ4_K_M3.72 GB76.3 GB~491 tok/s521.8KOpen →
LFM2.5-2.6BLiquidAI · 2.7B paramsQ4_K_M2.61 GB77.4 GB~787 tok/s108.1KOpen →
Qwen3-VL-4B-InstructQwen · 4.4B paramsQ4_K_M4.72 GB75.3 GB~367 tok/s3.5MOpen →
granite-4.1-30bIBM · 29B paramsQ4_K_M20.4 GB59.6 GB~69 tok/s301.5KOpen →
Qwen3.5-122B-A10BQwen · 125B paramsQ4_K_M77.9 GB2.05 GB~269 tok/s512.6KOpen →
Qwen3-VL-2B-InstructQwen · 2.1B paramsQ4_K_M3.05 GB77.0 GB~666 tok/s2.8MOpen →
granite-4.2-3bIBM · 3.7B paramsQ4_K_M3.72 GB76.3 GB~491 tok/s50.6KOpen →
LFM2.5-230MLiquidAI · 230M paramsQ4_K_M1.05 GB78.9 GB~5489 tok/s88.6KOpen →
Qwen3-0.6BQwen · 752M paramsQ4_K_M2.22 GB77.8 GB~1021 tok/s29.7MOpen →
Qwen3-Coder-NextQwen · 80B paramsQ4_K_M50.0 GB30.0 GB~488 tok/s596.3KOpen →
gpt-oss-20bOpenAI · 21B paramsQ4_K_M13.8 GB66.2 GB~544 tok/s6.6MOpen →
granite-4.2-30bIBM · 29B paramsQ4_K_M20.7 GB59.3 GB~69 tok/s35.8KOpen →
granite-4.1-8bIBM · 8.8B paramsQ4_K_M7.49 GB72.5 GB~210 tok/s179.3KOpen →
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16NVIDIA · 32B paramsQ4_K_M20.3 GB59.7 GB~70 tok/s875.2KOpen →
gpt-oss-120bOpenAI · 117B paramsQ4_K_M71.9 GB8.06 GB~383 tok/s4.5MOpen →
LFM2.5-VL-3BLiquidAI · 3.1B paramsQ4_K_M2.85 GB77.1 GB~787 tok/s26.7KOpen →
MiMo-V2.6-Distill-Qwen-9BNEWXiaomiMiMo · 9.4B paramsQ4_K_M6.90 GB73.1 GB~280 tok/s14.6KOpen →
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507Qwen · 4.0B paramsQ4_K_M4.72 GB75.3 GB~367 tok/s3.7MOpen →
Ling-3.0-tinyinclusionAI · 7.9B paramsQ4_K_M5.85 GB74.1 GB~1586 tok/s17.7KOpen →

Sized at the format most people actually download, not at FP16. The catalogue ordered by downloads →

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Under the hood

The specification behind every figure

What the manufacturer publishes for this device, and the pages it was read from.

Manufacturer specification

Memory scopededicated
Capacity80 GB
Published options80 GB
Bandwidth2000 GB/s
Memory typeHBM2e
Bus width5120-bit
FP32 peak48 TFLOPS
Dense matrix peakNot published without sparsity
Max thermal design power (TDP)350 W

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Caveats

  • The architecture whitepaper labels its H100 bandwidth table not finalized; the later product brief's 2TB/s value is canonical. See conflicts.
  • No dense matrix throughput is catalogued for this device: NVIDIA's current H100 pages publish FP16 Tensor Core throughput only with sparsity. Time to first token is withheld rather than priced against a sparsity figure.

Published capacity is a hardware ceiling, not guaranteed free runtime memory. The calculator shows the runtime reserve separately rather than folding it into a single number.

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