Can I run Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct on a NVIDIA A100 (40GB)?
Yes.Runs
You can run this with Q8 quantization. On a NVIDIA A100 (40GB) (40 GB VRAM), Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct needs about 19 GB (Q8) and should generate at roughly ~64 tok/s. Recommended: Run on your GPU with Q8.
Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-InstructWhy
- Full precision needs ~36 GB which exceeds your accelerator, but 8-bit (INT8 / Q8) needs only ~19 GB and fits.
How to run Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct on a A100 (40GB)
Run with Ollama (easiest)
ollama run qwen2.5:14bOr with llama.cpp
llama-cli -hf Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct -p "Hello"Serve with vLLM (OpenAI-compatible API)
# Fast production serving on http://localhost:8000/v1
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-InstructPython (Transformers)
from transformers import pipeline, BitsAndBytesConfig
# pip install transformers accelerate bitsandbytes
quant = BitsAndBytesConfig(load_in_8bit=True)
pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct", device_map="auto",
model_kwargs={"quantization_config": quant})
print(pipe("Hello", max_new_tokens=50))Want it to run comfortably at higher precision? The smallest GPU that runs Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct well is the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (48 GB).