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Q42GB VRAM minimum

bigcode/starcoder2-3b Q4 VRAM Requirements

This page answers bigcode/starcoder2-3b q4 quantization queries with explicit calculations from our model requirement dataset and compatibility speed table.

Requirement Snapshot
Current quantization-specific requirement breakdown
Selected quantizationQ4
Minimum VRAM2GB
Q4 baseline2GB
Q8 baseline3GB
FP16 baseline6GB
Methodology
No hand-wavy numbers

Exact Q4 requirement from model requirement data.

Throughput data below uses available compatibility measurements/estimates and is sorted by tokens per second for this model.

Need general guidance? Review full methodology.

Best GPUs for bigcode/starcoder2-3b (Q4)

GPUVRAMQuantizationSpeedCompatibility
AMD Instinct MI300X192GBQ4974 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB141GBQ4799 tok/sView full compatibility
AMD Instinct MI250X128GBQ4571 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB80GBQ4544 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB80GBQ4398 tok/sView full compatibility
RTX 509032GBQ4396 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM480GBQ4324 tok/sView full compatibility
AMD Instinct MI21064GBQ4303 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA A100 40GB PCIe40GBQ4299 tok/sView full compatibility
RTX 409024GBQ4235 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA L4048GBQ4208 tok/sView full compatibility
NVIDIA L40S48GBQ4207 tok/sView full compatibility
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