Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E needs ~219.0 GB VRAM. NVIDIA GB200 192GB has 192.0 GB. With Q3_K_S quantization, expect ~71 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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75.0 GB over capacity — needs offload or smaller quantization
Fit status
Too heavy
Decode
44.1 tok/s
TTFT
4392 ms
Safe context
4K
Memory
267.0 GB / 192.0 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 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 24.2 GB of extra host RAM just for the offloaded portion, before OS and other tools.
| Workload | Grade | Fit | Decode | TTFT | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat | F | Too heavy | 44.5 tok/s | 2374 ms | 4K |
| Coding | F | Too heavy | 44.1 tok/s | 4392 ms | 4K |
| Agentic Coding | F | Too heavy | 43.3 tok/s | 6505 ms | 4K |
| Reasoning | F | Too heavy | 44.1 tok/s | 5191 ms | 4K |
| RAG | F | Too heavy | 43.3 tok/s | 8131 ms | 4K |
How Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E (400B params) fits at each quantization level on NVIDIA GB200 192GB (192.0 GB usable).
| Quant | Bits | VRAM | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Q2_K | 2 | 156.0 GB | Low | F0 |
Q3_K_S | 3 | 196.0 GB | Low | F0 |
NVFP4 | 4 |
Copy-paste commands to run Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E on your machine.
Run
lms load Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct && lms server startUpgrade options
Makes 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.
~$8,000 MSRP
Makes the model fit on the accelerator instead of staying completely out of reach.
Adds memory headroom for longer context windows and future model growth.
~$20,000 MSRP
Yes, NVIDIA GB200 192GB can run Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E at Q3_K_S quantization (Very compromised (needs ~24.2 GB host RAM)). The recommended Q4_K_M requires 267.0 GB which exceeds available memory, but at Q3_K_S it needs only 219.0 GB. Expected decode speed: 70.8 tok/s.
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E (400B parameters) requires approximately 267.0 GB at Q4_K_M quantization. On NVIDIA GB200 192GB, it fits at Q3_K_S using 219.0 GB.
The recommended quantization is Q4_K_M, but on NVIDIA GB200 192GB the best fitting quantization is Q3_K_S, which uses 219.0 GB.
On NVIDIA GB200 192GB, Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E achieves approximately 70.8 tokens per second decode speed with a time-to-first-token of 2736ms using Q3_K_S quantization.
For coding workloads, Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E on NVIDIA GB200 192GB receives a F grade with 44.1 tok/s and 4K context.
On NVIDIA GB200 192GB, Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E can safely use up to 4K tokens of context at Q3_K_S quantization. The model's official context limit is 1.0M, but available memory constrains the safe maximum.
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Preview:
224.0 GB |
| Medium |
| F0 |
Q4_K_M | 4 | 244.0 GB | Medium | F0 |
Q5_K_M | 5 | 288.0 GB | High | F0 |
Q6_K | 6 | 328.0 GB | High | F0 |
Q8_0 | 8 | 428.0 GB | Very High | F0 |
F16 | 16 | 820.0 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.