Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E (400B MoE) on NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB VRAM)
Even in 4-bit Q4_K_M, Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E (400B MoE) requires 251.93 GB VRAM (8x NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs needed for full VRAM execution, or heavy CPU RAM offloading at ~13.9 tok/s).
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251.93 GB / 32 GB🚀 Ready-to-Run Launch Command
ollama run llama4:maverick # Or with llama.cpp server (8K context, Flash Attention): llama-server -hf meta-llama/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-GGUF -c 8192 -ngl 99 -fa
Need 251.93 GB+ VRAM to run Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E (400B MoE)?
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All Quantization Formats: Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E (400B MoE) on NVIDIA RTX 5090
| Quantization Format | Bits/Weight | Weights VRAM | KV Cache (8K) | Total VRAM | Fits on 1x NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB)? | Est. Speed | GPUs Needed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP16 / BF16 (Unquantized) | 16 bpw | 824 GB | 1.5 GB | 826.16 GB | No (Over by 794.2GB) | ~4.2 tok/s | 26x NVIDIA RTX 5090 |
| FP8 (W8A8 / E4M3) | 8.5 bpw | 437.75 GB | 1.5 GB | 439.91 GB | No (Over by 407.9GB) | ~7.9 tok/s | 14x NVIDIA RTX 5090 |
| GGUF Q8_0 (8-bit) | 8.5 bpw | 437.75 GB | 1.5 GB | 439.91 GB | No (Over by 407.9GB) | ~7.9 tok/s | 14x NVIDIA RTX 5090 |
| GGUF Q6_K (6-bit) | 6.56 bpw | 337.84 GB | 1.5 GB | 340 GB | No (Over by 308.0GB) | ~10.3 tok/s | 11x NVIDIA RTX 5090 |
| GGUF Q5_K_M (5-bit) | 5.69 bpw | 293.04 GB | 1.5 GB | 295.19 GB | No (Over by 263.2GB) | ~11.9 tok/s | 10x NVIDIA RTX 5090 |
| GGUF Q4_K_M / AWQ (4-bit) | 4.85 bpw | 249.77 GB | 1.5 GB | 251.93 GB | No (Over by 219.9GB) | ~13.9 tok/s | 8x NVIDIA RTX 5090 |
| GGUF IQ4_XS (4.25 bpw) | 4.25 bpw | 218.88 GB | 1.5 GB | 221.03 GB | No (Over by 189.0GB) | ~15.9 tok/s | 7x NVIDIA RTX 5090 |
| GGUF Q3_K_M (3-bit) | 3.91 bpw | 201.37 GB | 1.5 GB | 203.52 GB | No (Over by 171.5GB) | ~17.3 tok/s | 7x NVIDIA RTX 5090 |
Frequently Asked Questions (Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E (400B MoE) + NVIDIA RTX 5090)
Can NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB) run Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E (400B MoE) locally?
No — A single NVIDIA RTX 5090 (32GB) cannot fit Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E (400B MoE) in VRAM. Even in 4-bit Q4_K_M, Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E (400B MoE) requires 251.93 GB VRAM (8x NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs needed for full VRAM execution, or heavy CPU RAM offloading at ~13.9 tok/s).
How is KV Cache calculated for Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E (400B MoE)?
Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E (400B MoE) uses MoE-GQA with 48 transformer layers, 40 attention heads, and 8 KV heads (head dimension 128). At 8,192 tokens in FP16, KV cache consumes 1.5 GB. Enabling 8-bit KV cache (-ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 in llama.cpp or --kv-cache-dtype fp8 in vLLM) cuts this in half to 0.75 GB.