NVIDIA H100 SXM5 (80 GB HBM3) — Runnable LLMs, Max Context & tok/s Benchmarks

NVIDIA H100 SXM5 (80 GB HBM3) provides 80 GB of memory (73.6 GB default usable ceiling) backed by 3,350 GB/s of external bandwidth and 989 TFLOPS FP16 compute (~$2.39/hr typical cloud rate, 700W TDP).

Physical Memory
80 GB
Default / Tuned Usable
73.6 / 76.8 GB
Memory Bandwidth
3,350 GB/s
FP16 Compute
989 TFLOPS
Typical Cloud $/hr / CapEx
$2.39/hr · $27,500
TDP / Native FP8
700W · FP8 Yes

Interactive Workload Simulator on NVIDIA H100 80GB

32,768 tokens

Memory Breakdown & Bandwidth Ceiling

Fits Comfortably
Model Weights: 76% KV: 19.1% Overhead: 4.9%
Total Required Memory
52.45 GB
Per-Device Allocation: 52.45 / 80 GB
Model Weights
39.86 GB
KV: 10.00 GB
Est. Single-Stream Decode
41.4 tok/s
Est. Batched Throughput: 41.4 tok/s
Max Context Before OOM
114,335
tokens

Key Flag Guardrails Compiled Automatically

Tensor parallelism splits attention heads and MLP matrices across NVLink or PCIe devices, so --tensor-parallel-size must evenly divide query and KV head counts while leaving headroom for NCCL all-reduce buffers and CUDA graph capture.

During single-user autoregressive generation, every output token requires reading active model weights from VRAM into compute cores. Doubling memory bandwidth (for example jumping from 546 GB/s to 1,792 GB/s on GDDR7 or 3,350 GB/s on HBM3) nearly doubles tok/s at identical quantization.

Open-Weight LLM Compatibility Matrix on 1× NVIDIA H100 80GB (32K Context)

Fit status and estimated single-stream decode tok/s across FP16, Q8_0, and Q4_K_M on a single device
Model & Family FP16 Q8_0 Q4_K_M Best Comfortable Quant Max Context (Q4_K_M) Decode Speed (Q4_K_M)
DeepSeek-R1 (671B MoE)
671B · MLA
Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) — — —
DeepSeek-V3-0324 (671B MoE)
671B · MLA
Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) — — —
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
70.6B · GQA
Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) Fits Comfortably Q6_K 114,335 tokens 41.4 tok/s
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B
32.8B · GQA
Tight Fit (>90% Usable) Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP8 232,960 tokens 77.9 tok/s
Qwen3-235B-A22B (MoE)
235B · GQA
Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) — — —
Qwen3-30B-A3B (MoE)
30.5B · GQA
Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP16 / BF16 635,837 tokens 425.0 tok/s
Qwen3-32B
32.8B · GQA
Tight Fit (>90% Usable) Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP8 232,960 tokens 77.9 tok/s
Qwen3-14B
14.8B · GQA
Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP16 / BF16 441,339 tokens 154.7 tok/s
Qwen3-8B
8.2B · GQA
Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP16 / BF16 518,326 tokens 226.4 tok/s
QwQ-32B (Reasoning)
32.8B · GQA
Tight Fit (>90% Usable) Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP8 232,960 tokens 77.9 tok/s
Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct
32.8B · GQA
Tight Fit (>90% Usable) Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP8 232,960 tokens 77.9 tok/s
Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct
72.7B · GQA
Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) Fits Comfortably Q6_K 110,333 tokens 40.5 tok/s
Llama 4 Maverick (400B / 17B-128E MoE)
402B · GQA
Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) — — —
Llama 4 Scout (109B / 17B-16E MoE)
109B · HYBRID_SWA
Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) Tight Fit (>90% Usable) IQ4_XS 68,598 tokens 167.5 tok/s
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
70.6B · GQA
Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) Fits Comfortably Q6_K 114,335 tokens 41.4 tok/s
Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
405B · GQA
Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) — — —
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
8.03B · GQA
Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP16 / BF16 583,926 tokens 242.2 tok/s
Gemma 3 27B IT (Multimodal)
27.4B · HYBRID_SWA
Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP16 / BF16 126,876 tokens 112.5 tok/s
Gemma 3 12B IT (Multimodal)
12.2B · HYBRID_SWA
Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP16 / BF16 188,020 tokens 224.6 tok/s
Mistral Small 3.1 (24B)
24B · GQA
Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP16 / BF16 406,275 tokens 111.4 tok/s
Mistral Large 2411 (123B)
123B · GQA
Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) — 13,163 tokens —
Codestral 22B
22.2B · GQA
Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP16 / BF16 295,097 tokens 105.8 tok/s
Devstral Small (24B SWE Agent)
23.6B · GQA
Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP16 / BF16 407,800 tokens 112.8 tok/s
GLM-4-32B-0414
32B · GQA
Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP16 / BF16 985,666 tokens 103.5 tok/s
GLM-4-9B-0414
9.4B · GQA
Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP16 / BF16 1,048,576 tokens 315.2 tok/s
Microsoft Phi-4 (14B)
14.7B · GQA
Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP16 / BF16 353,376 tokens 142.0 tok/s
Microsoft Phi-4-mini-instruct (3.8B)
3.84B · GQA
Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably Fits Comfortably FP16 / BF16 603,888 tokens 335.1 tok/s
Cohere Command A (111B)
111B · HYBRID_SWA
Out of Memory (OOM) Out of Memory (OOM) Tight Fit (>90% Usable) IQ4_XS 46,684 tokens 31.6 tok/s

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