Yes — with 23.2 GB to spare

Olmo 3 7B Instruct at Q4_K_M fits your RTX 5000 Ada entirely on the GPU at 8K context, at an estimated 85 tokens per second. There is room for its full 64K window.

Fully on GPU 8K context Q4_K_M · 4.1 GB Apache 2.0 Released 20 Nov 2025

Fully open — training data and code included. Full multi-head attention, so its cache is 4× a GQA 7B at the same context.

What hardware do I need for Olmo 3 7B Instruct? →

The VRAM budget

weights 4.1 GB
Weights 4.1 GB KV cache @ 8K 2.50 GB Runtime overhead 0.6 GB Free 23.2 GB of 30.4 GB

Quantisation ladder

QuantWeightsTotal @ 8KMax contextTok/sQualityFit
F16 13.6 GB 16.7 GB 64K 26 Reference Long context
Q8_0 7.2 GB 10.3 GB 64K 48 −0.1% ppl Long context
Q6_K 5.6 GB 8.7 GB 64K 63 −0.4% ppl Long context
Q5_K_M 4.8 GB 7.9 GB 64K 72 −0.8% ppl Long context
Q4_K_M 4.1 GB 7.2 GB 64K 85 −1.9% ppl Recommended
Q3_K_M 3.3 GB 6.4 GB 64K 105 −5.4% ppl Long context
Q2_K 2.8 GB 5.9 GB 64K 122 −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 (4096 tokens, 8 of 32 layers global), which is why its cache barely grows with context.

How to run it

terminal
$ ollama pull olmo-3:7b
$ OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=8192 \
    ollama run olmo-3:7b

The default. One binary, a model registry, an OpenAI-compatible port. More on Ollama.

01Download is 4.1 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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