Can the NVIDIA L40 run Fara 1.5 4B?

Yes, it runs great

Runs great. At F16 it needs about 12.3 GB of 48.0 GB usable, with an estimated speed of 54.8 tok/s.

Best quant: F16
Generation speed: 54.8 tok/s
Prompt processing: 14,352 tok/s
First token (1K prompt): 0.3 s
Largest safe context: 256K

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA L40

On Linux

Inference server · runs on vLLM

The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.

vllm serve microsoft/Fara1.5-4B

LM Studio Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.
SGLang The full model fits in GPU memory at 8-bit, so it can batch many requests: best for serving a team or an app.

On Windows

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

Point-and-click: search, download and chat in one window.

Open Fara 1.5 4B in LM Studio

llama.cpp Usually the first to support new model architectures.
Ollama Runs the Hugging Face GGUF with ollama run hf.co/…

Want an agent? Fara 1.5 4B supports tool use, so you can pair a llama.cpp or MLX LM server with one of these. Apps that run on this computer come first.

Coding agents

Personal assistants

How we choose: the files published for this model, your operating system and GPU, whether it fits fully in memory, and published speed tests (MLX vs llama.cpp on Apple silicon, vLLM vs llama.cpp vs Ollama on NVIDIA). Details.

Download Fara 1.5 4B

Recommended for the NVIDIA L40: F16. Every other quantization has its own download link in the table below.

Quantized files · GGUF

Works in LM Studio, llama.cpp, Jan and Ollama. No sign-in needed.

Download the F16 file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/bartowski/Fara1.5-4B-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/bartowski/Fara1.5-4B-GGUF:BF16

Original weights · Hugging Face

Full-precision files from Microsoft, for fine-tuning, vLLM, Transformers.

huggingface.co/microsoft/Fara1.5-4B (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 3 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.: How capable the model itself is at F16, from its editorial quality tier scaled by the quantization or precision. It’s the same on any hardware that runs this variant. Scale: A+ 85+ · A 70+ · B 55+ · C 40+ · D under 40.
Runs Runs great: How well it runs on the NVIDIA L40: speed, capped by how well it fits in memory. Runs great: 30+ tokens/s (or near the image, video or decision speed target) · Runs well: 10+ tokens/s · Slow: 3+ tokens/s · Very slow: under 3 · Won’t run: doesn’t fit even with offload. A tight fit or RAM offload caps it at Runs well; heavy offload caps it at Slow.

Match score

To order lists, each result also gets a match score out of 100 from four parts. It favors the most capable model that still runs well.

Model qualityEditorial quality tier of the model, scaled by the quantization or precision used.	26.1 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.	25.0 / 25
SpeedGeneration speed against a 40 tokens/s target for LLMs, or render time against a target for image and video.	15.0 / 15
Memory useRewards using the memory you have, so a bigger, better variant beats a tiny one that leaves most memory idle.	5.9 / 15
Match score	72.0 / 100

The match score orders results; it is not shown as a grade. Quality and Runs are the two ratings in the tables.

Every quantization on the NVIDIA L40

Quant	Memory needed	Available	Speed	Runs	Quality	Download
`Q2_K`	5.1 GB	48.0 GB	384 tok/s	Runs great	40Fair quality (C) · 40 of 100: how capable the model is at Q2_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 60/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q3_K_M`	5.5 GB	48.0 GB	302 tok/s	Runs great	48Fair quality (C) · 48 of 100: how capable the model is at Q3_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 64/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q4_K_M`	6.0 GB	48.0 GB	234 tok/s	Runs great	55Good quality (B) · 55 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 67/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q5_K_M`	6.5 GB	48.0 GB	193 tok/s	Runs great	56Good quality (B) · 56 of 100: how capable the model is at Q5_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q6_K`	7.0 GB	48.0 GB	162 tok/s	Runs great	57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`Q8_0`	8.1 GB	48.0 GB	119 tok/s	Runs great	58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 69/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab)
`F16`	12.3 GB	48.0 GB	54.8 tok/s	Runs great	58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 72/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.	GGUF (opens in a new tab) Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Memory figures assume 8K of context. Longer conversations or documents grow the KV cache.

Other hardware that runs it

58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER F16 · 42.6 tok/s · Runs great
58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER F16 · 46.7 tok/s · Runs great
58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti F16 · 56.8 tok/s · Runs great
58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 81/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 F16 · 60.9 tok/s · Runs great
57Good quality (B) · 57 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 80/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Q6_K · 51.0 tok/s · Runs great
58Good quality (B) · 58 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 78/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Intel Arc B580 Q8_0 · 47.9 tok/s · Runs great

Quick answers

How much memory does Fara 1.5 4B need on the NVIDIA L40 48GB?

At F16 it needs about 12.3 GB. The NVIDIA L40 48GB has 48.0 GB usable.

How fast is Fara 1.5 4B on the NVIDIA L40 48GB?

About 54.8 tok/s at F16, an estimate from the hardware’s memory bandwidth and the size of the model.

Which quantization of Fara 1.5 4B should I use on the NVIDIA L40 48GB?

F16. Of the versions that fit, it is the one that runs best; when two run equally well, the check prefers the higher-rated one.

Estimates come from published hardware specs and our open formulas, not from running the model on your machine. Real speed varies with runtime, drivers and settings. Numbers marked “Measured” come from a linked benchmark.