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Best AI Models for L40S

48GB VRAM nvidia ada lovelace

VRAM
48GB
Generation
ada lovelace
MSRP
$7,500
Vendor
nvidia
Runs Perfectly (S/A/B)
142
With Offloading (C/D)
2
Cannot Run (F)
1
S

Excellent (138 models)

Runs great with room for large context windows

Mixtral 8x7B Instruct

Mistral AI

S
46.7BChat / LLMQ5_K_M30.5GB

Phi-3.5 MoE

Microsoft

S
41.9BChat / LLMQ4_K_M24.1GB

Qwen 2.5 32B

Alibaba

S
32BChat / LLMQ4_K_M19.0GB

Skyfall 31B v4.2

TheDrummer

S
31BChat / LLMQ4_K_M18.2GB

Qwen3 30B-A3B

Alibaba

S
30.5BChat / LLMQ4_K_M20.0GB

Gemma 3 27B

Google

S
27BChat / LLMQ4_K_M15.9GB

Dolphin Mistral 24B (Venice Edition)

Cognitive Computations

S
24BChat / LLMQ8_025.9GB

Dolphin 3.0 R1 Mistral 24B

Cognitive Computations

S
24BChat / LLMQ4_K_M13.8GB

Cydonia 24B v4.3

TheDrummer

S
24BChat / LLMQ4_K_M13.8GB

Mistral Small 22B

Mistral AI

S
22BChat / LLMQ4_K_M12.9GB

Codestral 22B (abliterated)

failspy

S
22BCodingQ4_K_M12.9GB

Magnum v4 22B

Anthracite

S
22BChat / LLMQ4_K_M12.9GB

DeepSeek MoE 16B

DeepSeek

S
16.4BChat / LLMQ4_K_M11.0GB

Rocinante XL 16B v1

TheDrummer

S
16BChat / LLMQ4_K_M9.6GB

Phi-4

Microsoft

S
14BChat / LLMQ8_015.0GB

Qwen 2.5 14B

Alibaba

S
14BChat / LLMQ8_015.1GB

Qwen 2.5 Coder 14B

Alibaba

S
14BCodingQ8_015.1GB

Code Llama 13B Instruct

Meta

S
13BCodingQ4_K_M7.8GB

Gemma 3 12B

Google

S
12BChat / LLMQ8_012.2GB

Mistral Nemo 12B

Mistral AI

S
12BChat / LLMQ8_012.6GB

FLUX.1 Schnell (GGUF)

Black Forest Labs

S
12BImage GenerationQ5_014.0GB

FLUX.1 Dev (GGUF)

Black Forest Labs

S
12BImage GenerationQ5_014.0GB

Magnum v4 12B

Anthracite

S
12BChat / LLMBF1624.5GB

Rocinante 12B v1.1

TheDrummer

S
12BChat / LLMBF1624.5GB

Mistral Nemo Base 12B

Mistral AI

S
12BChat / LLMBF1624.5GB

Solar 10.7B

Upstage

S
10.7BChat / LLMQ8_011.1GB

Falcon 3 10B

TII

S
10BChat / LLMQ8_010.7GB

Mochi 1 Preview

Genmo

S
10Bvideo-genFP1630.0GB

Gemma 2 9B Instruct

Google

S
9.2BChat / LLMQ8_09.7GB

Yi 1.5 9B Chat

01.AI

S
9BChat / LLMQ8_09.2GB

Yi Coder 9B

01.AI

S
9BCodingQ8_09.2GB

Gemma 3 MoE 9B

Google

S
9BChat / LLMQ4_K_M7.0GB

CodeGemma 7B

Google

S
8.5BCodingQ8_08.9GB

DeepSeek R1 Distill 8B

DeepSeek

S
8BChat / LLMQ8_08.4GB

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct

Meta

S
8BChat / LLMFP1617.0GB

Granite 3.3 8B

IBM

S
8BChat / LLMQ8_08.6GB

Dolphin 3.0 Llama 3.1 8B

Cognitive Computations

S
8BChat / LLMBF1616.5GB

NeuralDaredevil 8B (abliterated)

mlabonne

S
8BChat / LLMBF1616.5GB

Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (abliterated)

mlabonne

S
8BChat / LLMBF1616.5GB

Stheno L3 8B v3.2

Sao10K

S
8BChat / LLMBF1616.5GB

Qwen3 8B Base

Alibaba

S
8BChat / LLMBF1616.5GB

EXAONE 3.5 7.8B

LG AI

S
7.8BChat / LLMQ8_08.2GB

InternLM 2.5 7B

Shanghai AI Lab

S
7.7BChat / LLMQ8_08.2GB

Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct

Alibaba

S
7.6BChat / LLMQ8_09.0GB

Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B

Alibaba

S
7.6BCodingQ8_08.0GB

Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3

Mistral AI

S
7.3BChat / LLMFP1615.5GB

LLaVA 1.6 7B

LLaVA

S
7BMultimodalQ8_08.5GB

Falcon 3 7B

TII

S
7BChat / LLMQ8_08.3GB

OLMo 2 7B

Allen AI

S
7BChat / LLMQ8_07.7GB

OpenChat 3.5 7B

OpenChat

S
7BChat / LLMQ8_07.7GB

StarCoder2 7B

BigCode

S
7BCodingQ8_07.6GB

Code Llama 7B

Meta

S
7BCodingQ8_07.2GB

OLMoE 1B-7B

AI2

S
6.9BChat / LLMQ8_07.3GB

DeepSeek Coder 6.7B

DeepSeek

S
6.7BCodingQ8_07.2GB

Yi 1.5 6B Chat

01.AI

S
6BChat / LLMQ8_06.5GB

Wan 2.2 TI2V 5B

Wan-AI

S
5Bvideo-genFP1616.0GB

CogVideoX 5B

THUDM

S
5Bvideo-genFP1616.0GB

Phi-3.5 Vision

Microsoft

S
4.2BMultimodalQ4_K_M3.2GB

Gemma 3 4B

Google

S
4BChat / LLMQ8_04.3GB

Nemotron Mini 4B

NVIDIA

S
4BChat / LLMQ8_04.7GB

Danube 3 4B

H2O.ai

S
4BChat / LLMQ8_04.4GB

Phi-3.5 Mini 3.8B

Microsoft

S
3.8BChat / LLMQ8_04.3GB

Phi-4 Mini 3.8B

Microsoft

S
3.8BChat / LLMQ8_04.3GB

Stable Diffusion XL (CoreML)

Stability AI

S
3.5BImage GenerationCoreML3.3GB

SDXL Turbo (GGUF)

Stability AI

S
3.5BImage GenerationQ5_05.0GB

Granite 3.0 3B-A800M

IBM

S
3.4BChat / LLMQ4_K_M2.4GB

Llama 3.2 3B Instruct

Meta

S
3.2BChat / LLMQ8_03.7GB

Qwen 2.5 3B

Alibaba

S
3BChat / LLMQ8_03.9GB

Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B

Alibaba

S
3BCodingQ8_03.9GB

Falcon 3 3B

TII

S
3BChat / LLMQ8_03.8GB

StableLM Zephyr 3B

Stability AI

S
3BChat / LLMQ8_03.3GB

Rocket 3B

Pansophic

S
3BChat / LLMQ8_03.3GB

StarCoder2 3B

BigCode

S
3BCodingQ8_03.5GB

Stable Code 3B

Stability AI

S
3BCodingQ8_03.3GB

PaliGemma 3B

Google

S
3BMultimodalQ4_K_M2.5GB

Gemma 2 2B

Google

S
2.6BChat / LLMQ8_03.1GB

Stable Diffusion 3 Medium (GGUF)

Stability AI

S
2.5BImage GenerationQ8_09.2GB

Hunyuan3D 2

Tencent

S
2.5B3d-genFP1616.0GB

EXAONE 3.5 2.4B

LG AI

S
2.4BChat / LLMQ8_03.1GB

Qwen2-VL 2B

Alibaba

S
2.2BMultimodalQ8_02.0GB

CodeGemma 2B

Google

S
2BCodingQ8_03.0GB

MiniCPM-V 2.6

OpenBMB

S
2BMultimodalQ8_03.0GB

Granite 3.3 2B

IBM

S
2BChat / LLMQ8_03.0GB

Moondream 2

Moondream

S
1.8BMultimodalQ4_K_M1.5GB

SmolLM2 1.7B

HuggingFace

S
1.7BChat / LLMQ8_02.2GB

Whisper Large v3

OpenAI

S
1.55BSpeech RecognitionQ8_03.4GB

Qwen 2.5 1.5B

Alibaba

S
1.5BChat / LLMQ8_02.3GB

DeepSeek R1 Distill 1.5B

DeepSeek

S
1.5BChat / LLMQ8_02.3GB

Qwen 2.5 Coder 1.5B

Alibaba

S
1.5BCodingQ8_02.3GB

Yi Coder 1.5B

01.AI

S
1.5BCodingQ8_02.0GB

ACE-Step 1.5XL

ACE Studio

S
1.5BAudio GenerationFP168.0GB

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B

DeepSeek

S
1.3BCodingQ8_01.8GB

Granite 3.0 1B-A400M

IBM

S
1.3BChat / LLMQ4_K_M1.3GB

Llama 3.2 1B Instruct

Meta

S
1.24BChat / LLMFP162.8GB

TRELLIS Image Large

Microsoft

S
1.2B3d-genFP1612.0GB

TinyLlama 1.1B

TinyLlama

S
1.1BChat / LLMQ8_01.6GB

Gemma 3 1B

Google

S
1BChat / LLMQ8_01.5GB

Falcon 3 1B

TII

S
1BChat / LLMQ8_02.2GB

Stable Audio Open

Stability AI

S
1BAudio GenerationFP166.0GB

Stable Diffusion 2.1 Base (CoreML)

Stability AI / Apple

S
0.86BImage GenerationCoreML-Palettized1.6GB

Stable Diffusion 1.5 (CoreML)

Runway

S
0.86BImage GenerationCoreML-Palettized2.5GB

Stable Diffusion 1.5 (GGUF)

Runway / GPUStack

S
0.86BImage GenerationQ8_02.3GB

Stable Diffusion 2.1 (GGUF)

Stability AI

S
0.86BImage GenerationQ8_02.7GB

Whisper Large v3 Turbo

OpenAI

S
0.81BSpeech RecognitionQ8_02.0GB

Whisper Medium

OpenAI

S
0.77BSpeech RecognitionQ8_01.9GB

Distil-Whisper Large v3

HuggingFace

S
0.76BSpeech RecognitionQ8_01.9GB

BGE Reranker v2 M3

BAAI

S
0.568BRerankerFP161.6GB

Qwen 2.5 0.5B

Alibaba

S
0.5BChat / LLMQ8_01.1GB

Qwen 2.5 Coder 0.5B

Alibaba

S
0.5BCodingQ8_01.1GB

Danube 3 500M

H2O.ai

S
0.5BChat / LLMQ8_01.0GB

SmolLM2 360M

HuggingFace

S
0.36BChat / LLMQ8_00.9GB

BGE Large EN v1.5

BAAI

S
0.335BEmbeddingFP161.1GB

MusicGen Small

Meta

S
0.3BAudio GenerationONNX-Q4F160.8GB

Whisper Small

OpenAI

S
0.24BSpeech RecognitionQ8_00.9GB

Nomic Embed Text v1.5

Nomic AI

S
0.137BEmbeddingFP160.8GB

SmolLM2 135M

HuggingFace

S
0.135BChat / LLMFP160.8GB

Kokoro 82M TTS

Kokoro

S
0.082BText to SpeechONNX-Q8F160.6GB

Whisper Base

OpenAI

S
0.074BSpeech RecognitionQ8_00.3GB

Whisper Base English

OpenAI

S
0.074BSpeech RecognitionQ8_00.3GB

Whisper Tiny English (Quantized)

OpenAI

S
0.039BSpeech RecognitionQ5_10.1GB

Whisper Tiny

OpenAI

S
0.039BSpeech RecognitionQ8_00.2GB

BGE Small EN v1.5

BAAI

S
0.033BEmbeddingQ8_00.1GB

Snowflake Arctic Embed S

Snowflake

S
0.033BEmbeddingQ8_00.1GB

Jina Reranker Tiny EN

Jina AI

S
0.033BRerankerFP160.1GB

all-MiniLM-L6-v2

Sentence Transformers

S
0.023BEmbeddingQ8_00.1GB

Piper TTS - Amy (English)

Rhasspy

S
0.02BText to SpeechONNX0.1GB

Piper TTS - Lessac (English)

Rhasspy

S
0.02BText to SpeechONNX0.1GB

Piper TTS - LibriTTS-R (English)

Rhasspy

S
0.02BText to SpeechONNX0.6GB

Piper TTS - Spanish (MLS)

Rhasspy

S
0.02BText to SpeechONNX0.1GB

Piper TTS - French (Siwis)

Rhasspy

S
0.02BText to SpeechONNX0.5GB

Piper TTS - German (Thorsten)

Rhasspy

S
0.02BText to SpeechONNX0.1GB

Piper TTS - Chinese (Huayan)

Rhasspy

S
0.02BText to SpeechONNX0.1GB

Piper TTS - Japanese (Kokoro)

Rhasspy

S
0.02BText to SpeechONNX0.1GB

Piper TTS - Korean

Rhasspy

S
0.02BText to SpeechONNX0.1GB

Piper TTS - Russian (Irina)

Rhasspy

S
0.02BText to SpeechONNX0.1GB

Piper TTS - Portuguese (Faber)

Rhasspy

S
0.02BText to SpeechONNX0.1GB

Piper TTS - Italian (Riccardo)

Rhasspy

S
0.02BText to SpeechONNX0.5GB

Piper TTS - Arabic (Kareem)

Rhasspy

S
0.02BText to SpeechONNX0.1GB
B

Good (4 models)

Runs but may be tight on memory

C

Possible (1 model)

Needs partial CPU offloading, slower performance

D

Struggling (1 model)

Heavy offloading required, very slow

F

Cannot Run (1 model)

Insufficient hardware to run this model

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Frequently Asked Questions

What AI models can I run on the NVIDIA L40S?
The NVIDIA L40S with 48GB VRAM can run 142 AI models smoothly (grade B or better), including Mixtral 8x7B Instruct, Phi-3.5 MoE, Qwen 2.5 32B and 139 more.
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA L40S have?
The NVIDIA L40S has 48GB of VRAM, which is sufficient for running many local AI models.
Is the NVIDIA L40S good for AI?
With 48GB VRAM, the NVIDIA L40S can run 142 out of 145 models in our database at grade B or better. This is an excellent choice for local AI workloads.