Yes — with 25.1 GB to spare

LLM-jp 4 33B Thinking at Q4_K_M fits your L40S entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 28 tokens per second. There is room for its full 64K window.

Fully on GPU 8K context Q4_K_M · 18.7 GB Apache 2.0 Released 14 Aug 2026 New this week Not in the Ollama library

Japan’s national-institute reasoning model, Japanese and English. A plain dense Llama-style 33B: Q4 is a tight 24 GB fit.

What hardware do I need for LLM-jp 4 33B Thinking? →

The VRAM budget

weights 18.7 GB
Weights 18.7 GB KV cache @ 8K 2.00 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Free 25.1 GB of 46.4 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
Q8_0 32.9 GB 35.5 GB 51K 16 −0.1% ppl Long context
Q6_K 25.4 GB 28.0 GB 64K 21 −0.4% ppl Long context
Q5_K_M 21.9 GB 24.5 GB 64K 24 −0.8% ppl Long context
Q4_K_M 18.7 GB 21.3 GB 64K 28 −1.9% ppl Recommended
Q3_K_M 15.1 GB 17.7 GB 64K 35 −5.4% ppl Long context
Q2_K 12.9 GB 15.5 GB 64K 40 −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.

How to run it

terminal
$ llama-server \
    -hf llm-jp/llm-jp-4-33b-thinking:Q4_K_M \
    -c 8192 -ngl 99

The engine underneath most of the others. Every knob is exposed. More on llama.cpp.

01Download is 18.7 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 64K context on this card.
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