Qwen3.8 2.4T-A95B VRAM requirements

Qwen3.8 2.4T-A95B has 2.45T parameters, of which about 95B are used per token; all 512 experts still have to be in memory. With an 8K-token context and one request it needs about 1,517 GB of GPU memory at Q4_K_M, 2,507 GB at FP8 and 5,013 GB at FP16/BF16. The published weights take 4,556 GB (BF16). No single GPU in the table holds it at Q4_K_M; it needs a multi-GPU setup.

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VRAM by quantization

Weights plus the KV cache for 8,192 tokens in FP16 and the runtime overhead (0.5 GB plus 10%). Each row opens the calculator with that setting. What the GGUF names mean.

PrecisionWeightsTotalSmallest setup
As published (BF16) 4,556 GB 5,013 GB More than 8 GPUs
FP16 / BF16 4,556 GB 5,013 GB More than 8 GPUs
FP8 / INT8 2,278 GB 2,507 GB More than 8 GPUs
INT4 (AWQ / GPTQ) 1,210 GB 1,333 GB 8 × B200
GGUF Q8_0 2,421 GB 2,664 GB More than 8 GPUs
GGUF Q6_K 1,868 GB 2,056 GB More than 8 GPUs
GGUF Q5_K_M 1,615 GB 1,777 GB More than 8 GPUs
GGUF Q4_K_M 1,378 GB 1,517 GB More than 8 GPUs
GGUF Q3_K_M 1,113 GB 1,226 GB 8 × B200
GGUF Q2_K 954 GB 1,051 GB 8 × H200

KV cache at long context

23 of its 92 layers use full attention and 69 are linear-attention layers with no growing cache. Each extra token of context adds 92 KB of FP16 cache per request. How the KV cache works.

ContextKV cache, FP16KV cache, FP8Total at Q4_K_M
4K tokens 368 MB 184 MB 1,517 GB
32K tokens 2.88 GB 1.44 GB 1,520 GB
128K tokens 11.5 GB 5.75 GB 1,529 GB
256K tokens 23.0 GB 11.5 GB 1,542 GB

Which GPUs can run Qwen3.8 2.4T-A95B

With 8,192 tokens of context. Several GPUs means one tensor-parallel group of 2, 4 or 8 cards.

GPUMemoryQ4_K_MFP8
RTX 3060 12 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 16 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
RTX 3090 / 4090 24 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
RTX 5090 32 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
A100 40GB 40 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
Mac, 64 GB unified memory about 75% of it is usable by the GPU by default 48 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
L40S / RTX 6000 Ada 48 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
A100 / H100 80GB 80 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
Mac, 128 GB unified memory about 75% of it is usable by the GPU by default 96 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
H200 141 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8
B200 180 GB Needs more than 8 Needs more than 8

How fast Qwen3.8 2.4T-A95B writes

Tokens per second for one request with 8,192 tokens of context, estimated from memory bandwidth and the parameters read per token. A dash means it does not fit on one card. Try other settings in the speed calculator.

HardwareBandwidthQ4_K_MFP8
RTX 3060 12GB 360 GB/s — —
RTX 4090 1,008 GB/s — —
RTX 5090 1,792 GB/s — —
M4 Max Mac (128 GB) 546 GB/s — —
M3 Ultra Mac Studio (512 GB) 819 GB/s — —
H100 SXM 3,350 GB/s — —
H200 4,800 GB/s — —

Longest context on one GPU

How many tokens of context fit on a single card with one request and an FP16 KV cache. "Full" means the model's whole context window fits.

GPUMemoryQ4_K_MQ8_0FP8
RTX 3060 12 GB No No No
RTX 4060 Ti 16GB 16 GB No No No
RTX 3090 / 4090 24 GB No No No
RTX 5090 32 GB No No No
A100 40GB 40 GB No No No
Mac, 64 GB unified memory 48 GB No No No
L40S / RTX 6000 Ada 48 GB No No No
A100 / H100 80GB 80 GB No No No
Mac, 128 GB unified memory 96 GB No No No
H200 141 GB No No No
B200 180 GB No No No

Model details

Parameters
2.45T (2,446,182,725,504)
Experts
512 routed experts, all loaded
Active per token
95B
Layers
23 of its 92 layers use full attention and 69 are linear-attention layers with no growing cache
Attention cache
4 KV heads × 256
Context length
262,144 tokens
Published weights
4,556 GB (BF16)
On Hugging Face
Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B

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