Your rig
A100 40 GB · 40 GB
8 GB system RAM · Ampere · 1555 GB/s · 38.4 GB usable VRAM
Which one should I actually run?
Best models for your A100 40 GB
What do you want to do? Each row is the best-ranked model on that use case's shortlist that fits at Q2_K and 32K. The ordering is editorial; the sizes and speeds are computed. How the shortlists work.
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General assistantCodingReasoning & mathsWritingVisionAgents & tool useTranslationLow latencyLong context
| Recommendation | Model | Why | Quant · total | Tok/s est. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best overall | Qwen3.8 27B New this week Alibaba · Apache 2.0 |
Best capability per gigabyte: a current-generation dense 27B with vision and 262K context. | Q2_K · 13.4 GB | 87 | Runs great |
| Best for coding | Qwen3.8 27B New this week Alibaba · Apache 2.0 |
Terminal-Bench 73, DeepSWE 42 — a generation ahead of anything else that fits 24 GB. | Q2_K · 13.4 GB | 87 | Runs great |
| Best reasoning | Gemma 4 31B Google · Apache 2.0 |
89% AIME — the strongest maths of any model under 32B. | Q2_K · 18.6 GB | 77 | Runs great |
| Best for writing | Gemma 4 31B Google · Apache 2.0 |
The cleanest, least verbose prose of the 2026 24–32 GB class. | Q2_K · 18.6 GB | 77 | Runs great |
| Best vision | Qwen3.8 27B New this week Alibaba · Apache 2.0 |
Image and video in, OSWorld 84 — the strongest local vision-language model at 24 GB. | Q2_K · 13.4 GB | 87 | Runs great |
| Best for agents | Qwen3.8 27B New this week Alibaba · Apache 2.0 |
Computer use and tool calling are what 3.8 was trained for (OSWorld 84). | Q2_K · 13.4 GB | 87 | Runs great |
| Best translation | Qwen3.8 27B New this week Alibaba · Apache 2.0 |
119 languages, and Qwen translations read as idiomatic rather than literal. | Q2_K · 13.4 GB | 87 | Runs great |
| Fastest good model | Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba · Apache 2.0 |
3.3B active per token: the fastest model that still competes with dense 27Bs. | Q2_K · 15.2 GB | 281 | Runs great |
| Best long context | Qwen3.8 27B New this week Alibaba · Apache 2.0 |
262K native, and only 16 of 64 blocks keep a KV cache — long context is cheap here. | Q2_K · 19.4 GB at 128K context |
87 | Runs great |
Everything that fits
Runs great
58 of 76 · fits with headroom for a longer prompt| Model | Params | Quant | Weights | +KV 32K | Total | VRAM headroom | Tok/s | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.6 35B-A3B | 35.9B MoE / 3.3B act | Q2_K | 14.0 GB | 0.63 GB | 15.2 GB |
23.2 GB free
|
281 | Ollama | Run |
| Ornith 1.5 35B-A3B New this week | 35.9B MoE / 3.3B act | Q2_K | 14.0 GB | 0.63 GB | 15.2 GB |
23.2 GB free
|
281 | Ollama | Run |
| LLM-jp 4 33B Thinking New this week | 33.2B | Q2_K | 12.9 GB | 8.00 GB | 21.5 GB |
16.9 GB free
|
73 | llama.cpp | Run |
| Qwen3 32B | 32.8B | Q2_K | 12.8 GB | 8.00 GB | 21.4 GB |
17.0 GB free
|
74 | Ollama | Run |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 32B | 32.8B | Q2_K | 12.8 GB | 8.00 GB | 21.4 GB |
17.0 GB free
|
74 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen2.5-Coder 32B | 32.8B | Q2_K | 12.8 GB | 8.00 GB | 21.4 GB |
17.0 GB free
|
74 | Ollama | Run |
| Olmo 3.1 32B Instruct | 32.2B | Q2_K | 12.6 GB | 2.75 GB | 15.9 GB |
22.5 GB free
|
75 | Ollama | Run |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B New | 31.6B MoE / 3.2B act | Q2_K | 12.3 GB | 0.19 GB | 13.1 GB |
25.3 GB free
|
290 | Ollama | Run |
| Gemma 4 31B | 31.3B | Q2_K | 12.2 GB | 5.78 GB | 18.6 GB |
19.8 GB free
|
77 | Ollama | Run |
| GLM-4.7-Flash 30B-A3B | 31.2B MoE / 3B act | Q2_K | 12.2 GB | 1.65 GB | 14.4 GB |
24.0 GB free
|
309 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen3 30B-A3B | 30.5B MoE / 3.3B act | Q2_K | 11.9 GB | 3.00 GB | 15.5 GB |
22.9 GB free
|
281 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B | 30.5B MoE / 3.3B act | Q2_K | 11.9 GB | 3.00 GB | 15.5 GB |
22.9 GB free
|
281 | Ollama | Run |
| Muse Glimmer 30B New | 29.8B | Q2_K | 11.6 GB | 0.48 GB | 12.7 GB |
25.7 GB free
|
81 | Ollama | Run |
| Granite 4.1 30B | 28.9B | Q2_K | 11.3 GB | 8.00 GB | 19.9 GB |
18.5 GB free
|
84 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen3.8 27B New this week | 27.8B | Q2_K | 10.8 GB | 2.00 GB | 13.4 GB |
25.0 GB free
|
87 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen3.6 27B | 27.8B | Q2_K | 10.8 GB | 2.00 GB | 13.4 GB |
25.0 GB free
|
87 | Ollama | Run |
| Gemma 3 27B | 27.4B | Q2_K | 10.7 GB | 2.91 GB | 14.2 GB |
24.2 GB free
|
88 | Ollama | Run |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | 26.5B MoE / 3.8B act | Q2_K | 10.3 GB | 1.45 GB | 12.4 GB |
26.0 GB free
|
244 | Ollama | Run |
| Devstral Small 2 24B | 24B | Q2_K | 9.4 GB | 5.00 GB | 15.0 GB |
23.4 GB free
|
101 | llama.cpp | Run |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B | 23.6B | Q2_K | 9.2 GB | 5.00 GB | 14.8 GB |
23.6 GB free
|
102 | Ollama | Run |
| gpt-oss 20B | 20.9B MoE / 3.6B act | MXFP4 | 10.8 GB | 0.75 GB | 12.2 GB |
26.2 GB free
|
194 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen3 14B | 14.8B | Q2_K | 5.8 GB | 5.00 GB | 11.4 GB |
27.0 GB free
|
163 | Ollama | Run |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 14B | 14.8B | Q2_K | 5.8 GB | 6.00 GB | 12.4 GB |
26.0 GB free
|
163 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen2.5-Coder 14B | 14.8B | Q2_K | 5.8 GB | 6.00 GB | 12.4 GB |
26.0 GB free
|
163 | Ollama | Run |
| Phi-4 14B | 14.7B | Q2_K | 5.7 GB | 3.13 GB | 9.5 GB |
28.9 GB free
|
164 | Ollama | Run |
| Ministral 3 14B | 13.9B | Q2_K | 5.4 GB | 5.00 GB | 11.0 GB |
27.4 GB free
|
174 | Ollama | Run |
| Gemma 3 12B | 12.2B | Q2_K | 4.8 GB | 2.31 GB | 7.7 GB |
30.7 GB free
|
198 | Ollama | Run |
| Mistral NeMo 12B | 12.2B | Q2_K | 4.8 GB | 5.00 GB | 10.4 GB |
28.0 GB free
|
198 | Ollama | Run |
| Gemma 4 12B | 12B | Q2_K | 4.7 GB | 2.31 GB | 7.6 GB |
30.8 GB free
|
201 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen3.5 9B | 9.65B | Q2_K | 3.8 GB | 1.00 GB | 5.4 GB |
33.0 GB free
|
250 | Ollama | Run |
| Ornith 1.5 9B New this week | 9.41B | Q2_K | 3.7 GB | 1.00 GB | 5.3 GB |
33.1 GB free
|
257 | Ollama | Run |
| Ministral 3 8B | 8.92B | Q2_K | 3.5 GB | 4.25 GB | 8.3 GB |
30.1 GB free
|
271 | Ollama | Run |
| Granite 4.1 8B | 8.79B | Q2_K | 3.4 GB | 5.00 GB | 9.0 GB |
29.4 GB free
|
275 | Ollama | Run |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B | 8.47B MoE / 1.5B act | Q2_K | 3.3 GB | 0.38 GB | 4.3 GB |
34.1 GB free
|
619 | Ollama | Run |
| Fara 7B | 8.29B | Q2_K | 3.2 GB | 1.75 GB | 5.6 GB |
32.8 GB free
|
291 | llama.cpp | Run |
| Qwen3 8B | 8.19B | Q2_K | 3.2 GB | 4.50 GB | 8.3 GB |
30.1 GB free
|
295 | Ollama | Run |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 8.03B | Q2_K | 3.1 GB | 4.00 GB | 7.7 GB |
30.7 GB free
|
301 | Ollama | Run |
| Gemma 4 E4B | 8.0B | Q2_K | 3.1 GB | 0.47 GB | 4.2 GB |
34.2 GB free
|
302 | Ollama | Run |
| Ling 3.0 Tiny 7.9B-A1.3B New | 7.9B MoE / 1.3B act | Q2_K | 3.1 GB | 0.21 GB | 3.9 GB |
34.5 GB free
|
714 | llama.cpp | Run |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen 7B | 7.62B | Q2_K | 3.0 GB | 1.75 GB | 5.3 GB |
33.1 GB free
|
317 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen2.5-Coder 7B | 7.62B | Q2_K | 3.0 GB | 1.75 GB | 5.3 GB |
33.1 GB free
|
317 | Ollama | Run |
| Olmo 3 7B Instruct | 7.3B | Q2_K | 2.8 GB | 5.50 GB | 8.9 GB |
29.5 GB free
|
331 | Ollama | Run |
| Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3 | 7.25B | Q2_K | 2.8 GB | 4.00 GB | 7.4 GB |
31.0 GB free
|
333 | Ollama | Run |
| Gemma 4 E2B | 5.1B | Q2_K | 2.0 GB | 0.23 GB | 2.8 GB |
35.6 GB free
|
473 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen3.5 4B | 4.66B | Q2_K | 1.8 GB | 1.00 GB | 3.4 GB |
35.0 GB free
|
518 | Ollama | Run |
| Gemma 3 4B | 4.3B | Q2_K | 1.7 GB | 0.86 GB | 3.1 GB |
35.3 GB free
|
561 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen3 4B | 4.02B | Q2_K | 1.6 GB | 4.50 GB | 6.7 GB |
31.7 GB free
|
600 | Ollama | Run |
| Ministral 3 3B | 3.85B | Q2_K | 1.5 GB | 3.25 GB | 5.4 GB |
33.0 GB free
|
627 | Ollama | Run |
| Phi-4-mini 3.8B | 3.84B | Q2_K | 1.5 GB | 4.00 GB | 6.1 GB |
32.3 GB free
|
629 | Ollama | Run |
| Granite 4.1 3B | 3.4B | Q2_K | 1.3 GB | 2.50 GB | 4.4 GB |
34.0 GB free
|
710 | Ollama | Run |
| Llama 3.2 3B Instruct | 3.21B | Q2_K | 1.3 GB | 3.50 GB | 5.4 GB |
33.0 GB free
|
752 | Ollama | Run |
| LFM2.5 2.6B New | 2.7B | Q2_K | 1.1 GB | 0.50 GB | 2.2 GB |
36.2 GB free
|
894 | llama.cpp | Run |
| Qwen3.5 2B | 2.27B | Q2_K | 0.9 GB | 0.38 GB | 1.9 GB |
36.5 GB free
|
1063 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen3 1.7B | 1.72B | Q2_K | 0.7 GB | 3.50 GB | 4.8 GB |
33.6 GB free
|
1403 | Ollama | Run |
| Llama 3.2 1B Instruct | 1.24B | Q2_K | 0.5 GB | 1.00 GB | 2.1 GB |
36.3 GB free
|
1947 | Ollama | Run |
| Gemma 3 1B | 1.0B | Q2_K | 0.4 GB | 0.14 GB | 1.1 GB |
37.3 GB free
|
2414 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B | 0.87B | Q2_K | 0.3 GB | 0.38 GB | 1.3 GB |
37.1 GB free
|
2774 | Ollama | Run |
| Qwen3 0.6B | 0.6B | Q2_K | 0.2 GB | 3.50 GB | 4.3 GB |
34.1 GB free
|
4023 | Ollama | Run |
Runs — tight
2 models · fits at 32K, drop context or quant to go longer| Model | Params | Quant | Weights | +KV 32K | Total | VRAM headroom | Tok/s | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | 70.6B | Q2_K | 27.5 GB | 10.00 GB | 38.1 GB |
0.3 GB free
|
34 | llama.cpp | Run |
| DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 70B | 70.6B | Q2_K | 27.5 GB | 10.00 GB | 38.1 GB |
0.3 GB free
|
34 | llama.cpp | Run |
Won't fit in VRAM
16 models · some are possible with CPU offload| Model | Params | Quant | Weights | +KV 32K | Total | Over budget | Tok/s | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kimi K3 2.8T-A104B New | 2780B MoE / 104B act | Q2_K | 1084.2 GB | 0.84 GB | 1085.6 GB | +1047.2 GB | ~0.4 | llama.cpp | Why |
| Qwen3.8 2.4T-A95B New | 2446B MoE / 95B act | Q2_K | 953.9 GB | 2.88 GB | 957.4 GB | +919.0 GB | ~0.4 | llama.cpp | Why |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro 1.6T-A49B New | 1650B MoE / 49B act | Q2_K | 643.5 GB | 2.14 GB | 646.2 GB | +607.8 GB | ~0.8 | llama.cpp | Why |
| Kimi K2.6 1T-A32B | 1027B MoE / 32B act | Q2_K | 400.5 GB | 2.14 GB | 403.3 GB | +364.9 GB | ~1.2 | llama.cpp | Why |
| GLM-5.2 744B-A40B | 753B MoE / 40B act | Q2_K | 293.7 GB | 2.74 GB | 297.0 GB | +258.6 GB | ~1.0 | llama.cpp | Why |
| DeepSeek-R1 671B | 671B MoE / 37B act | Q2_K | 261.7 GB | 2.14 GB | 264.4 GB | +226.0 GB | ~1.1 | llama.cpp | Why |
| Qwen3.5 397B-A17B | 403B MoE / 17B act | Q2_K | 157.2 GB | 0.94 GB | 158.7 GB | +120.3 GB | ~2.7 | llama.cpp | Why |
| Ornith 1.5 397B-A17B New this week | 397B MoE / 17B act | Q2_K | 154.8 GB | 0.94 GB | 156.4 GB | +118.0 GB | ~2.7 | llama.cpp | Why |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 284B-A13B New | 284B MoE / 13B act | Q2_K | 110.8 GB | 1.51 GB | 112.9 GB | +74.5 GB | ~4.0 | llama.cpp | Why |
| Qwen3 235B-A22B | 235B MoE / 22B act | Q2_K | 91.6 GB | 5.88 GB | 98.1 GB | +59.7 GB | ~2.4 | llama.cpp | Why |
| Qwen3.5 122B-A10B | 125B MoE / 10B act | Q2_K | 48.7 GB | 0.75 GB | 50.1 GB | +11.7 GB | ~13 | llama.cpp | Why |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B | 124B MoE / 12B act | Q2_K | 48.4 GB | 0.25 GB | 49.2 GB | +10.8 GB | ~12 | llama.cpp | Why |
| Ling 3.0 Flash 124B-A5B New | 124B MoE / 5.1B act | Q2_K | 48.4 GB | 0.25 GB | 49.2 GB | +10.8 GB | ~28 | llama.cpp | Why |
| Mistral Small 4 119B-A6B | 119B MoE / 6.5B act | Q2_K | 46.4 GB | 0.70 GB | 47.7 GB | +9.3 GB | ~24 | llama.cpp | Why |
| gpt-oss 120B | 117B MoE / 5.1B act | MXFP4 | 60.5 GB | 1.13 GB | 62.2 GB | +23.8 GB | ~13 | llama.cpp | Why |
| Llama 4 Scout 109B-A17B | 109B MoE / 17B act | Q2_K | 42.5 GB | 2.63 GB | 45.7 GB | +7.3 GB | ~10 | llama.cpp | Why |
Totals = quantised weights + f16 KV cache at 32K tokens + 0.6 GB runtime overhead, against 38.4 GB usable VRAM (40 GB less display and driver reserve). Tokens per second are estimated from 1555 GB/s peak memory bandwidth at batch 1 — not measured. Read the method.