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Can I run this LLM?

Can a NVIDIA L40S (48GB) run Qwen3.8 27B?

Qwen · Apache 2.0 · estimated for a 48.0 GB machine at 4K context.

Yes — it runs great.

Best fit: Qwen3.8 27B at Q8_0 · 29.0 GB · 20–30 tok/s on a NVIDIA L40S (48GB).

Every quantization on this machine

QuantSizeSpeedFit
Q3_K_M11.8 GB44–65 tok/sRuns great
Q4_K_M16.6 GB33–49 tok/sRuns great
Q5_K_M19.5 GB29–43 tok/sRuns great
Q6_K22.5 GB25–38 tok/sRuns great
Q8_029.0 GB20–30 tok/sRuns great
FP1654.6 GB11–17 tok/sWon't fit

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