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Can the NVIDIA A800 40GB Active run Prometheus 2 8x7B?

70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.

Barely: it runs very slowly

Very slow. At Q4_K_M it needs about 31.4 GB of 40.0 GB usable and makes one decision in about 2.5 s.

Best quant
Q4_K_M
Time per decision
2.5 s
Decisions per second
0.4/s
Input assumed
1,024 tokens
Returns
Written feedback, then a score

Best app to run it on the NVIDIA A800 40GB Active

On Linux

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

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

Open Prometheus 2 8x7B in LM Studio

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

On Windows

LM Studio

Desktop app · runs on llama.cpp, MLX

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

Open Prometheus 2 8x7B in LM Studio

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

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 Prometheus 2 8x7B

Recommended for the NVIDIA A800 40GB Active: Q4_K_M. 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 Q4_K_M file (opens in a new tab)

huggingface.co/mradermacher/prometheus-8x7b-v2.0-GGUF (opens in a new tab)

ollama run hf.co/mradermacher/prometheus-8x7b-v2.0-GGUF:Q4_K_M

Original weights · Hugging Face

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

huggingface.co/prometheus-eval/prometheus-8x7b-v2.0 (opens in a new tab)

No sign-in needed.

Links checked 2 days ago against Hugging Face, Ollama and GitHub.

How it’s rated

Quality 70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_K_M, whatever it runs on. Match score 68/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking.
How capable the model itself is at Q4_K_M, 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 Very slow
How well it runs on the NVIDIA A800 40GB Active: 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.

PrecisionEditorial precision tier from the model’s published benchmarks, scaled by the quantization or precision used.31.6 / 45
Memory fitFull marks when everything sits in GPU memory; fewer when part spills to system RAM.25.0 / 25
SpeedTime for one decision against a 100 ms target: reading the input plus any tokens the model writes.3.0 / 15
ClarityHow easy the answer is to use in code: a probability or score earns the most, written feedback before a score the least.9.0 / 15
Match score68.7 / 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 A800 40GB Active

Quant Memory needed Available Speed Runs Quality Download
Q4_K_M 31.4 GB 40.0 GB 2.5 s Very slow 70Great quality (A) · 70 of 100: how capable the model is at Q4_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)
Q5_K_M 36.0 GB 40.0 GB 2.7 s Very slowtight fit 71Great quality (A) · 71 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 41.2 GB 40.0 GB 4.0 s Very slowoffloads to RAM 73Great quality (A) · 73 of 100: how capable the model is at Q6_K, whatever it runs on. Match score 54/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
Q8_0 52.4 GB 40.0 GB 14.8 s Very slowoffloads to RAM 74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at Q8_0, whatever it runs on. Match score 53/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. GGUF (opens in a new tab)
F16 96.3 GB 40.0 GB — Won't run 74Great quality (A) · 74 of 100: how capable the model is at F16, whatever it runs on. Match score 9/100 (quality, fit, speed and memory use) sets the ranking. Original weights (opens in a new tab)

Times are for one request with a 1,024-token input and about 150 tokens written. Batching servers process many requests at once.

Other hardware that runs it

Quick answers

How much memory does Prometheus 2 8x7B need on the NVIDIA A800 40GB Active?

At Q4_K_M it needs about 31.4 GB. The NVIDIA A800 40GB Active has 40.0 GB usable.

How fast is Prometheus 2 8x7B on the NVIDIA A800 40GB Active?

It makes one decision in about 2.5 s at Q4_K_M, an estimate from the hardware and the size of the model.

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.

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