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RUNLOCALAI · v38
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Custom build engine

Describe your build — any GPUs, CPU, RAM, OS, runtime, use case. We'll compute effective VRAM honestly, recommend a runtime, and tell you which models fit comfortably, which are borderline, and which aren't practical.

Total VRAM ≠ pooled VRAM. We never sum VRAM unless the silicon truly pools (Apple unified memory). We always explain why effective is lower than total.

Calculations follow the RunLocalAI Will-It-Run Framework: effective VRAM, model working set, runtime constraints, fit tiers, and measured-vs-estimated evidence labels.

Describe your build

Add GPUs, set CPU/RAM/OS, optionally pick a runtime + use case. URL updates as you change fields — share a build by copying the URL.

Build summary

Total VRAM
320 GB
Effective VRAM
~265 GB
range 250-272 GB
Topology
single node multi gpu
pcie
Setup difficulty
advanced
speed penalty ~18%
Why effective VRAM is lower than total

4× NVIDIA H100 SXM = 320 GB total VRAM, but without NVLink, cross-card bandwidth is PCIe-bound (~32 GB/s vs NVLink ~112 GB/s). With tensor-parallelism, each card holds ~1/4 of the model weights and replicates activations + KV cache. After 15% TP overhead, effective model capacity is ~265 GB. Largest single tensor on one card is ~78 GB.

Measured evidence on this hardware

Publicly inspectable measured rows for the selected hardware slug(s). Exact measured rows calibrate the fit table instead of leaving it as pure VRAM estimation.

No publicly inspectable benchmark rows are attached to this exact hardware yet. The engine will still calculate fit and runtime, but speed rows will remain estimated.

Recommended runtime

Best engine for this topology + skill level + use case.

vLLM
primary
involved

Tensor-parallel across NVLink/PCIe — works on every recent consumer + datacenter pair. AWQ-INT4 + 70B fits dual 3090 / dual 4090 cleanly.

ExLlamaV2
alternative
involved

Single-stream king. EXL2 4.0bpw + 70B fits dual 3090 with NVLink and beats vLLM on solo-user throughput.

llama.cpp
alternative
moderate

Layer-split via --tensor-split is the experimentation-friendly path. Worse throughput than vLLM but easier to debug.

WORKLOAD PROFILE
FITS
Kimi K1.5 @ AWQ-INT4, 8K context on NVIDIA H100 SXM
0 GB265 GBVRAM ceiling
Weights115 GB
KV cache100 GB
Activations5.8 GB
Runtime1.8 GB
Headroom42 GB
ESTIMATED DECODE RATE
20 tok/s
Bandwidth-derived estimate · efficiency 0.70. Real-world rates land within ±20% on well-tuned runtimes.
20 tokens per second02550100150

Models that fit your build

315 models considered. Categorized by headroom at the recommended quant + a sensible context for your use case.

Comfortable
24 models · ≥15% headroom
ModelParamsQuantVRAM est.ContextEvidenceNote
Kimi K1.5200BAWQ-INT4220.8 GB8,192No measured row yetFits cleanly at AWQ-INT4 + 8,192 ctx with 17% headroom.
GLM-5 Pro144BAWQ-INT4158.1 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 40% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Mixtral 8x22B Instruct141BQ4_K_M158.7 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 40% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
WizardLM-2 8x22B141BQ4_K_M158.7 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 40% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
DBRX Base132BQ4_K_M144.8 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 45% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
DBRX Instruct132BAWQ-INT4144.8 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 45% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Mistral Large 2 (123B)123BQ4_K_M138.2 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 48% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Nemotron 3 Super (120B-A12B)120BQ4_K_M135.6 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 49% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Llama 4 Scout109BQ5_K_M136.4 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 49% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Sarvam 105B105BQ4_K_M113.2 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 57% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Sarvam 105B FP8105BQ4_K_M113.2 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 57% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Command R+ 104B104BQ4_K_M115 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 57% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Command R+ (Aug 2024)104BAWQ-INT4115 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 57% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Llama 3.2 90B Vision90BAWQ-INT499.6 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 62% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct90BQ4_K_M98.6 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 63% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
InternVL 2.5 78B78BQ4_K_M86.3 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 67% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Qwen 2.5 Math 72B72BQ4_K_M61.1 GB4,096No measured row yetComfortable fit with 77% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct72BQ5_K_M87.5 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 67% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Molmo 72B72BQ4_K_M61.1 GB4,096No measured row yetComfortable fit with 77% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Qwen 2.5-VL 72B72BAWQ-INT480.1 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 70% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Dolphin 3 Llama 3.3 70B70BAWQ-INT477 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 71% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B70BQ5_K_M84.4 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 68% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct70BQ5_K_M84.4 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 68% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Tulu 3 70B70BQ4_K_M77 GB8,192No measured row yetComfortable fit with 71% headroom — room to extend context or run alongside other workloads.
Borderline
4 models · tight, may need quant downgrade
ModelParamsQuantVRAM est.ContextEvidenceNote
DeepSeek Coder V2 236B236BQ4_K_M258.7 GB8,192No measured row yetTight fit at Q4_K_M — only 2% headroom. KV cache for longer context will OOM. Cap context tighter or drop one quant level.
DeepSeek V2.5 236B236BQ4_K_M258.7 GB8,192No measured row yetTight fit at Q4_K_M — only 2% headroom. KV cache for longer context will OOM. Cap context tighter or drop one quant level.
K-EXAONE 236B A23B236BQ4_K_M254.3 GB8,192No measured row yetTight fit at Q4_K_M — only 4% headroom. KV cache for longer context will OOM. Cap context tighter or drop one quant level.
GLM-5200BQ4_K_M226 GB8,192No measured row yetTight fit at Q4_K_M — only 15% headroom. KV cache for longer context will OOM. Cap context tighter or drop one quant level.
Not practical
16 models · oversize for this build
ModelParamsQuantVRAM est.ContextEvidenceNote
Qwen 3 235B-A22B235BQ4_K_M266.6 GB8,192No measured row yet~266.6 GB needed at Q4_K_M + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 1%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B253BQ4_K_M277.7 GB8,192No measured row yet~277.7 GB needed at Q4_K_M + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 5%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (284B MoE)284BQ4_K_M312.1 GB8,192No measured row yet~312.1 GB needed at Q4_K_M + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 18%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
Hunyuan Large 389B MoE389BQ4_K_M425.5 GB8,192No measured row yet~425.5 GB needed at Q4_K_M + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 61%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
Qwen 3.5 235B-A17B (MoE)397BQ4_K_M435.8 GB8,192No measured row yet~435.8 GB needed at Q4_K_M + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 64%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
Jamba 1.5 Large398BQ4_K_M440.5 GB8,192No measured row yet~440.5 GB needed at Q4_K_M + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 66%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
Llama 4 Maverick400BQ4_K_M452 GB8,192No measured row yet~452.0 GB needed at Q4_K_M + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 71%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
Llama 4 405B405BAWQ-INT4444 GB8,192No measured row yet~444.0 GB needed at AWQ-INT4 + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 68%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
DeepSeek V3 (671B MoE)671BQ4_K_M734.5 GB8,192No measured row yet~734.5 GB needed at Q4_K_M + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 177%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
DeepSeek R1 (671B reasoning)671BQ4_K_M734.5 GB8,192No measured row yet~734.5 GB needed at Q4_K_M + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 177%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
Mistral Medium 3.5 (675B MoE)675BQ4_K_M744.9 GB8,192No measured row yet~744.9 GB needed at Q4_K_M + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 181%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
DeepSeek V4745BAWQ-INT4818.8 GB8,192No measured row yet~818.8 GB needed at AWQ-INT4 + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 209%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
Kimi K2.61000BQ4_K_M1130 GB8,192No measured row yet~1130.0 GB needed at Q4_K_M + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 326%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
Ring-2.6-1T1000BQ3_K_M1011.9 GB8,192No measured row yet~1011.9 GB needed at Q3_K_M + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 282%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
Step-31000BAWQ-INT41093.3 GB8,192No measured row yet~1093.3 GB needed at AWQ-INT4 + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 313%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.
DeepSeek V4 Pro (1.6T MoE)1600BQ4_K_M1766 GB8,192No measured row yet~1766.0 GB needed at Q4_K_M + 8,192 ctx — overshoots effective VRAM by 566%. Drop quant or move to a larger build.

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