Yes — with 122.4 GB to spare
Gemma 3 27B at Q4_K_M fits your H200 SXM entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 189 tokens per second. There is room for its full 128K window.
Fully on GPU
8K context
Q4_K_M · 15.4 GB
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Released Mar 2025
Vision
The 2025 single-GPU generalist with vision. Its Gemma-licence terms are the reason to prefer Gemma 4 now.
The VRAM budget
weights 15.4 GB
Weights 15.4 GB
KV cache @ 8K 1.03 GB
Runtime overhead 0.6 GB
Free 122.4 GB of 139.4 GB
Quantisation ladder
| Quant | Weights | Total @ 8K | Max context | Tok/s | Quality | Fit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q8_0 | 27.1 GB | 28.7 GB | 128K | 107 | −0.1% ppl | Long context |
| Q6_K | 20.9 GB | 22.6 GB | 128K | 139 | −0.4% ppl | Long context |
| Q5_K_M | 18.1 GB | 19.7 GB | 128K | 161 | −0.8% ppl | Long context |
| Q4_K_M | 15.4 GB | 17.0 GB | 128K | 189 | −1.9% ppl | Recommended |
| Q3_K_M | 12.5 GB | 14.1 GB | 128K | 233 | −5.4% ppl | Long context |
| Q2_K | 10.7 GB | 12.3 GB | 128K | 272 | −15% ppl | Long context |
Quality is the published perplexity delta against f16 weights. Max context assumes an f16 KV cache; q8_0 roughly doubles it. This model interleaves sliding-window layers (1024 tokens, 1 global in 6), which is why its cache barely grows with context.
How to run it
$ ollama pull gemma3:27b $ OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=8192 \ ollama run gemma3:27b
The default. One binary, a model registry, an OpenAI-compatible port. More on Ollama.
01Download is 15.4 GB. Keep it on an SSD — a first load off a spinning disk takes minutes.
02Close anything else holding VRAM. A browser with hardware acceleration can sit on 1–2 GB.
03There is room to go to the model's full 128K context on this card.