Falcon Mamba TPS calculator

Open weights Technology Innovation Institute 7B parameters August 2024

Each card below is assessed against this model at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from the card's memory bandwidth and the size of the model once compressed.

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589 cards that can run it

818 cards we hold specifications for

Smallest card that fits

Tesla K20c

5 GB · Q3_K_M · 28.9 tok/s

Fastest card

B200

484 tok/s · 180 GB

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Context length tokens

A longer conversation needs more memory, which can push this model off smaller cards.

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589 cards match

Calculating

					Needs	Quantisation	Fit
484 tok/s 290–774 · low confidence	B200 NVIDIA	180 GB	8,000 GB/s	Jan 2024	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
484 tok/s 290–774 · low confidence	B300 NVIDIA	288 GB	8,000 GB/s	Sep 2025	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
387 tok/s 232–618 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI350X AMD	288 GB	8,190 GB/s	Jan 2025	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
387 tok/s 232–618 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI355X AMD	288 GB	8,190 GB/s	Jan 2025	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
309 tok/s 185–495 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300 AMD	128 GB	6,550 GB/s	Jan 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
296 tok/s 178–473 · low confidence	H200 NVL NVIDIA	141 GB	4,890 GB/s	Nov 2024	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
296 tok/s 178–473 · low confidence	H200 SXM 141 GB NVIDIA	141 GB	4,890 GB/s	Nov 2024	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
283 tok/s 170–453 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI325X AMD	256 GB	6,000 GB/s	Oct 2024	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
251 tok/s 151–402 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300A AMD	128 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
251 tok/s 151–402 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300X AMD	192 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
251 tok/s 151–402 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI308X AMD	192 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
238 tok/s 143–381 · low confidence	H100 NVL 94 GB NVIDIA	94 GB	3,940 GB/s	Mar 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
203 tok/s 122–325 · low confidence	H100 PCIe 96 GB NVIDIA	96 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
203 tok/s 122–325 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	3,360 GB/s	Oct 2022	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
203 tok/s 122–325 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 94 GB NVIDIA	94 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
203 tok/s 122–325 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 96 GB NVIDIA	96 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
203 tok/s 122–325 · low confidence	H800 SXM5 NVIDIA	80 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
155 tok/s 93–248 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI250 AMD	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Nov 2021	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
155 tok/s 93–248 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI250X AMD	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Nov 2021	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
131 tok/s 79–210 · low confidence	CMP 170HX 8 GB NVIDIA	8 GB	1,490 GB/s	Sep 2021	6.6 GB	Q6_K	Tight
129 tok/s 77–206 · low confidence	Data Center GPU Max 1550 Intel	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Jan 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
126 tok/s 76–202 · low confidence	Data Center GPU Max Subsystem Intel	128 GB	3,210 GB/s	Jan 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
123 tok/s 74–197 · low confidence	A100 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Nov 2020	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
123 tok/s 74–197 · low confidence	A100X NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Jun 2021	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
123 tok/s 74–197 · low confidence	A800 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Aug 2022	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable

Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation: Technology Innovation Institute
Organisation type: Government
Country: United Arab Emirates
Published: 12 August 2024
Authors: Jingwei Zuo, Maksim Velikanov, Dhia Eddine Rhaiem, Ilyas Chahed, Younes Belkada, Guillaume Kunsch, Hakim Hacid

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain: Language
Task: Language modeling/generation, Question answering, Code generation, Quantitative reasoning

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Parameters: 7B
Training data: 5,500,000,000,000 tokens

Training compute

The arithmetic performed to train the model, measured in floating-point operations. It is a measure of what the training run cost, not of how fast the finished model answers you.

Training compute: 3.9 × 10²³ FLOP
How it was established: Hardware

The training run

What it physically took to train: which chips, how many, for how long, and what that drew from the wall.

Training hardware: NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB
Chips used: 256
Wall-clock time: 1,440 hours (60 days)
Power draw: 353.3 kW
Cloud vendor: Amazon Web Services
Data centre: AWS SageMaker

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights: Open — downloadable
Model access: Open weights (restricted use)
Training code: Unreleased
Hugging Face: tiiuae

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Record confidence: Confident

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference: Falcon Mamba: The First Competitive Attention-free 7B Language Model
Last updated: 28 November 2025

The extremes

The ten fastest GPUs that run Falcon Mamba

Ranked by estimated tokens per second, newest card first where speeds tie. Because generation is bound by memory bandwidth, this ordering follows bandwidth rather than any gaming benchmark.

The smallest GPUs that still run Falcon Mamba

The cheapest route in, by memory capacity. A tight fit runs the model but leaves nothing spare for a longer conversation.

What the numbers mean

What it takes to run this model

Minimum card

Tesla K20c

Memory needed

4.1 GB

Fastest

484 tok/s

Falcon Mamba reaches a parameter count of 7B. That is small enough that hardware is rarely the obstacle, including on cards several years old. The number of cards we track that can run it: 589.

The smallest card that holds it is Tesla K20c, with a memory capacity of 5 GB, running it at a compression of Q3_K_M and producing around 28.9 tokens per second.

At the other end sits B200, generating roughly 484 tokens per second on the strength of a memory bandwidth of 8,000 GB/s.

What this model is

Falcon Mamba was published by Technology Innovation Institute, in the country recorded as United Arab Emirates, during August 2024. The publishing organisation is categorised as government.

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as performing the task of language modeling/generation, Question answering, Code generation, Quantitative reasoning.

The weights being open is what puts this page in the calculator rather than only in the catalogue: it is a model you can actually hold. On Hugging Face it is published under the organisation tiiuae.

What decides the speed

Half the cards that hold it manage more than 26.1 tokens per second. Clearing the ten tokens per second that roughly matches reading speed: 559 of them.

Every weight participates in every token here, so bandwidth is the whole story: the ranking below is effectively a ranking of memory throughput.

Without the attention layout on record, the memory column is an approximation. It is close enough to choose hardware by, and least reliable at long context.

What went into building it

Producing it required arithmetic totalling around 3.9 × 10²³ FLOP, on hardware recorded as NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB. That figure measures what producing the model cost, and has no bearing on how fast it answers.

It was trained on a corpus of about 5,500,000,000,000 tokens of text.

Step by step

How to choose a GPU for Falcon Mamba

The table above has already assessed every card we hold specifications for against this model. Getting to your answer takes six steps.

01

Start from the memory column

Every card here has been checked against Falcon Mamba, needing around 4.1 GB at a compression of Q3_K_M. Capacity is the gate — a card either holds it or it does not.
02

Decide how long your conversations run

Longer conversations cost memory on top of what the weights need. Move the slider to your real working length before trusting any row for Falcon Mamba.
03

Choose how far you will compress it

Compression is what makes a model fit smaller cards, at some cost in accuracy, reaching a compression of Q3_K_M on the smallest card that fits. Setting a minimum quality drops the cards that only manage it by squeezing further than you would want, and holds the comparison at one level.
04

Sort by speed

Sort by speed to see how cards rank for Falcon Mamba. It will not match a gaming ordering, because generation is bound by memory bandwidth. The card topping the list is B200, at 484 tok/s.
05

Read the fit column last

Tight means it loads and works with no room to raise the context later, in the case of Falcon Mamba. Comfortable means you can grow the context later. That difference matters more than a few tokens per second, so buy for comfortable if you expect to.
06

Open the card you have settled on

Every card name links to its own page, which runs the same calculation across the whole model catalogue. A card is usually bought for more than one model, so it is worth a look before buying for Falcon Mamba.

Answers

Falcon Mamba — common questions

Falcon Mamba— is it open source?

Its weights are published, so it can be downloaded and run on your own hardware. Note that open weights is not the same as open source in the full sense — it says nothing about the training data, the training code, or the commercial terms attached.

Falcon Mamba— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 7B. That figure is the total, and it is what decides how much memory the model needs — roughly half a gigabyte per billion at the compression most people use.

Falcon Mamba— who created it?

It was published by Technology Innovation Institute, based in United Arab Emirates, an organisation categorised as government.

Falcon Mamba— when was it released?

It was published in August 2024. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

Falcon Mamba— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as handling the task of language modeling/generation, Question answering, Code generation, Quantitative reasoning. Models frequently carry more than one of each, and the tags describe purpose rather than capability limits.

Falcon Mamba— where can I download it?

Its weights are published on Hugging Face, under the organisation tiiuae. We do not host model files — this site calculates what hardware is needed to run them.

Falcon Mamba— how much compute was used to train it?

Training consumed around 3.9 × 10²³ FLOP, on hardware recorded as NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB. That measures what producing the model cost and says nothing about how quickly it answers once trained — inference speed comes from memory bandwidth, not from the training budget.

Falcon Mamba— can I run it if it does not fit in my GPU?

Partly. Layers that do not fit sit in system memory and run at a fraction of the speed, so a mostly-offloaded model is rarely worth using. The nearest miss we calculate falls short by 1.3 GB. Every figure here assumes the whole model is resident on the card.

Falcon Mamba— would two GPUs run it faster?

Capacity adds across cards; throughput does not. The number of cards already holding it on their own: 589. So a second card is rarely the answer here.

Falcon Mamba— why does the quantisation differ between cards?

Each card is shown running the least-compressed copy it can hold. The number of distinct compression levels across the cards that fit it: 4. Bigger cards get the more accurate version, and the quality floor above pins the comparison to one level.

Falcon Mamba— how accurate are these speed estimates?

These are estimates with real error bars, and any of them could reasonably land anywhere in its published range depending on which runtime you use. The fastest result here: 290–774 tok/s on B200. The same model and card vary by thirty to fifty per cent depending on the inference software and its version.

Falcon Mamba— what GPU do I need to run it?

The smallest card in our catalogue that holds it is Tesla K20c, with a memory capacity of 5 GB. It runs the model at a compression of Q3_K_M using about 4.1 GB, and produces roughly 28.9 tokens per second. The number of cards able to run it in total: 589.

Falcon Mamba— how fast is it on a GPU?

It depends on the card. The quickest we calculate is B200, at about 484 tokens per second; the slowest that still runs it manages considerably less. Reading speed is around ten tokens per second, and the number of cards clearing that: 559.

Falcon Mamba— how much VRAM does it need?

It needs about 4.1 GB at a compression of Q3_K_M, which is what the smallest card that runs it uses. Less compression needs more: the figures in the memory column above are recalculated for each card, because each one holds the least-compressed version it can.

Falcon Mamba— can I run it on a GPU holding 8 GB?

Yes. The card CMP 170HX 8 GB, holding 8 GB, runs it at a compression of Q6_K, using about 6.6 GB and generating roughly 131 tokens per second. The fit is tight.

Falcon Mamba— can I run it on a GPU holding 12 GB?

Yes. The card GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, holding 12 GB, runs it at a compression of Q8_0, using about 8.2 GB and generating roughly 55.2 tokens per second. The fit is comfortable.

Falcon Mamba— can I run it on a GPU holding 16 GB?

Yes. The card Tesla V100 SXM2 16 GB, holding 16 GB, runs it at a compression of Q8_0, using about 8.2 GB and generating roughly 68.4 tokens per second. The fit is comfortable.

Falcon Mamba— can I run it on a GPU holding 24 GB?

Yes. The card GeForce RTX 5090 D V2, holding 24 GB, runs it at a compression of Q8_0, using about 8.2 GB and generating roughly 81.1 tokens per second. The fit is comfortable.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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