Cerebras-GPT 13B needs ~18.9 GB VRAM. Tesla P100 16GB has 16.0 GB. With Q3_K_S quantization, expect ~32 tok/s.
Operating mode
Interactive favors responsiveness, while light API and scale-out lean harder on serving readiness. The fit stays the same, but the recommendation lens changes.
Current mode
Balanced
Balanced for general local use. Keeps the ranking neutral across personal and serving workflows.
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5.9 GB over capacity — needs offload or smaller quantization
Fit status
Too heavy
Decode
17.2 tok/s
TTFT
11265 ms
Safe context
6K
Memory
21.9 GB / 16.0 GB
Offload
30%
It fits through host-memory offload, and offload is the main reason performance drops.
CPU or host-memory offload is active
About 20% of the working set spills out of accelerator memory, which usually hurts latency and sustained decode throughput.
Very little memory headroom
You can run the model, but there is not much room left for longer context, bigger batches, extra apps, or future model updates.
Older PCIe generation
PCIe 3.0 is workable, but it compounds the penalty when you offload heavily or try to scale across multiple cards.
Remove offload with more accelerator memory
Prioritize a GPU or unified-memory tier that fits the whole model natively. Removing offload usually helps more than small compute gains.
Buy headroom, not only minimum fit
A slightly larger memory tier gives you safer context growth and makes the recommendation more future-proof.
Increase host RAM if you keep offloading
This setup may need roughly 1.0 GB of extra host RAM just for the offloaded portion, before OS and other tools.
| Workload | Grade | Fit | Decode | TTFT | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat | B | Runs with offload (needs ~0.6 GB host RAM) | 29.9 tok/s | 3534 ms | 6K |
| Coding | F | Too heavy | 17.2 tok/s | 11265 ms | 6K |
| Agentic Coding | F | Too heavy | 7.7 tok/s | 36795 ms | 6K |
| Reasoning | F | Too heavy | 17.2 tok/s | 13313 ms | 6K |
| RAG | F | Too heavy | 7.7 tok/s | 45994 ms | 6K |
How Cerebras-GPT 13B (13B params) fits at each quantization level on Tesla P100 16GB (16.0 GB usable).
| Quant | Bits | VRAM | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Q2_K | 2 | 5.1 GB | Low | B65 |
Q3_K_S | 3 | 6.4 GB | Low | B66 |
NVFP4 | 4 |
Copy-paste commands to run Cerebras-GPT 13B on your machine.
Run
docker run --rm -it ghcr.io/ggerganov/llama.cpp:full \
--hf-repo "cerebras/Cerebras-GPT-13B" \
--hf-file "Cerebras-GPT-13B-Q5_K_M.gguf" \
-c 4096 -ngl 99Upgrade options
RTX 4000 Ada 20GBBest valueMakes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Adds memory headroom for longer context windows and future model growth.
~$1,250 MSRP
RTX 3090 24GBBudget pickMakes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Removes host-memory offload, which is usually the single biggest latency and throughput win.
~$1,499 MSRP
RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell 24GBNVIDIA upgradeMakes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Removes host-memory offload, which is usually the single biggest latency and throughput win.
~$1,599 MSRP
Yes, Tesla P100 16GB can run Cerebras-GPT 13B at Q3_K_S quantization (Very compromised (needs ~1 GB host RAM)). The recommended Q5_K_M requires 21.9 GB which exceeds available memory, but at Q3_K_S it needs only 18.9 GB. Expected decode speed: 31.8 tok/s.
Cerebras-GPT 13B (13B parameters) requires approximately 21.9 GB at Q5_K_M quantization. On Tesla P100 16GB, it fits at Q3_K_S using 18.9 GB.
The recommended quantization is Q5_K_M, but on Tesla P100 16GB the best fitting quantization is Q3_K_S, which uses 18.9 GB.
On Tesla P100 16GB, Cerebras-GPT 13B achieves approximately 31.8 tokens per second decode speed with a time-to-first-token of 6094ms using Q3_K_S quantization.
For coding workloads, Cerebras-GPT 13B on Tesla P100 16GB receives a F grade with 17.2 tok/s and 6K context.
On Tesla P100 16GB, Cerebras-GPT 13B can safely use up to 11K tokens of context at Q3_K_S quantization. The model's official context limit is 131K, but available memory constrains the safe maximum.
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Preview:
7.3 GB |
| Medium |
| B67 |
Q4_K_M | 4 | 7.9 GB | Medium | B68 |
Q5_K_M | 5 | 9.4 GB | High | B67 |
Q6_KBest for your GPU | 6 | 10.7 GB | High | B67 |
Q8_0 | 8 | 13.9 GB | Very High | F0 |
F16 | 16 | 26.7 GB | Maximum | F0 |
Remove offload with more accelerator memory. Prioritize a GPU or unified-memory tier that fits the whole model natively. Removing offload usually helps more than small compute gains.