Llama 3.3 70B needs ~53.6 GB VRAM. NVIDIA L40S 48GB has 48.0 GB. With Q4_K_M quantization, expect ~10 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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5.6 GB over capacity — needs offload or smaller quantization
Fit status
Very compromised (needs ~4.4 GB host RAM)
Decode
10.2 tok/s
TTFT
18959 ms
Safe context
4K
Memory
53.6 GB / 48.0 GB
Offload
10%
It fits through host-memory offload, and offload is the main reason performance drops.
CPU or host-memory offload is active
About 10% 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.
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 4.4 GB of extra host RAM just for the offloaded portion, before OS and other tools.
| Workload | Grade | Fit | Decode | TTFT | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat | A | Runs with offload (needs ~2.6 GB host RAM) | 11.3 tok/s | 9374 ms | 4K |
| Coding | A | Very compromised (needs ~4.4 GB host RAM) | 10.2 tok/s | 18959 ms | 4K |
| Agentic Coding | F | Too heavy | 8.5 tok/s | 33134 ms | 4K |
| Reasoning | A | Very compromised (needs ~4.4 GB host RAM) | 10.2 tok/s | 22406 ms | 4K |
| RAG | F | Too heavy | 8.5 tok/s | 41418 ms |
How Llama 3.3 70B (70B params) fits at each quantization level on NVIDIA L40S 48GB (48.0 GB usable).
| Quant | Bits | VRAM | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Q2_K | 2 | 27.3 GB | Low | A82 |
Q3_K_SBest for your GPU | 3 | 34.3 GB | Low | A82 |
Copy-paste commands to run Llama 3.3 70B on your machine.
Run
ollama run llama3.3Your hardware
| Model | Params | Grade | Decode | Capabilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Qwen 2.5 VL 72B | 72B | A | 9.5 tok/s | |
| Qwen3-Coder-Next | 80B | A | 24.4 tok/s |
Yes, NVIDIA L40S 48GB can run Llama 3.3 70B with a A grade (Very compromised (needs ~4.4 GB host RAM)). Expected decode speed: 10.2 tok/s.
Llama 3.3 70B (70B parameters) requires approximately 53.6 GB of memory with Q4_K_M quantization.
The recommended quantization for Llama 3.3 70B is Q4_K_M, which balances quality and memory efficiency.
On NVIDIA L40S 48GB, Llama 3.3 70B achieves approximately 10.2 tokens per second decode speed with a time-to-first-token of 18959ms using Q4_K_M quantization.
For coding workloads, Llama 3.3 70B on NVIDIA L40S 48GB receives a A grade with 10.2 tok/s and 4K context.
On NVIDIA L40S 48GB, Llama 3.3 70B can safely use up to 4K tokens of context. The model's official context limit is 128K, but available memory constrains the safe maximum.
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Preview:
| 4K |
| 4 |
39.2 GB |
| Medium |
| F0 |
Q4_K_M | 4 | 42.7 GB | Medium | F0 |
Q5_K_M | 5 | 50.4 GB | High | F0 |
Q6_K | 6 | 57.4 GB | High | F0 |
Q8_0 | 8 | 74.9 GB | Very High | F0 |
F16 | 16 | 143.5 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.