Llama-3-Taiwan-70B TPS calculator

Open weights National Taiwan University 70B parameters November 2023

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.

Calculated for this model

61 cards that can run it

818 cards we hold specifications for

Smallest card that fits

A100 PCIe 40 GB

40 GB · Q3_K_M · 25.5 tok/s

Fastest card

B200

48.4 tok/s · 180 GB

Which GPUs can run Llama-3-Taiwan-70B?

Set the inputs, read the answer

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

Hides cards that would only fit the model by compressing it below this point.

61 cards match

Calculating
Needs Quantisation Fit
48.4 tok/s

41–58

B200 NVIDIA 180 GB 8,000 GB/s Jan 2024 73.8 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
48.4 tok/s

41–58

B300 NVIDIA 288 GB 8,000 GB/s Sep 2025 73.8 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
38.7 tok/s

23–62 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI350X AMD 288 GB 8,190 GB/s Jan 2025 73.8 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
38.7 tok/s

23–62 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI355X AMD 288 GB 8,190 GB/s Jan 2025 73.8 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
30.9 tok/s

19–49 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI300 AMD 128 GB 6,550 GB/s Jan 2023 73.8 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
29.6 tok/s

25–36

H200 NVL NVIDIA 141 GB 4,890 GB/s Nov 2024 73.8 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
29.6 tok/s

25–36

H200 SXM 141 GB NVIDIA 141 GB 4,890 GB/s Nov 2024 73.8 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
29.5 tok/s

25–35

H100 SXM5 80 GB NVIDIA 80 GB 3,360 GB/s Oct 2022 57.5 GB Q6_K Comfortable
29.5 tok/s

25–35

H800 SXM5 NVIDIA 80 GB 3,360 GB/s Mar 2023 57.5 GB Q6_K Comfortable
28.3 tok/s

17–45 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI325X AMD 256 GB 6,000 GB/s Oct 2024 73.8 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
26.1 tok/s

22–31

GRID A100B NVIDIA 48 GB 1,870 GB/s May 2020 41.2 GB Q4_K_M Tight
25.5 tok/s

22–31

A100 PCIe 40 GB NVIDIA 40 GB 1,560 GB/s Jun 2020 33.0 GB Q3_K_M Tight
25.5 tok/s

22–31

A100 SXM4 40 GB NVIDIA 40 GB 1,560 GB/s May 2020 33.0 GB Q3_K_M Tight
25.5 tok/s

22–31

A800 PCIe 40 GB NVIDIA 40 GB 1,560 GB/s Nov 2022 33.0 GB Q3_K_M Tight
25.1 tok/s

15–40 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI300A AMD 128 GB 5,325 GB/s Dec 2023 73.8 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
25.1 tok/s

15–40 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI300X AMD 192 GB 5,325 GB/s Dec 2023 73.8 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
25.1 tok/s

15–40 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI308X AMD 192 GB 5,325 GB/s Dec 2023 73.8 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
23.8 tok/s

20–29

H100 NVL 94 GB NVIDIA 94 GB 3,940 GB/s Mar 2023 73.8 GB Q8_0 Tight
20.3 tok/s

17–24

H100 PCIe 96 GB NVIDIA 96 GB 3,360 GB/s Mar 2023 73.8 GB Q8_0 Tight
20.3 tok/s

17–24

H100 SXM5 94 GB NVIDIA 94 GB 3,360 GB/s Mar 2023 73.8 GB Q8_0 Tight
20.3 tok/s

17–24

H100 SXM5 96 GB NVIDIA 96 GB 3,360 GB/s Mar 2023 73.8 GB Q8_0 Tight
18.7 tok/s

16–22

RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell NVIDIA 48 GB 1,340 GB/s Mar 2025 41.2 GB Q4_K_M Tight
17.9 tok/s

15–22

A100 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA 80 GB 2,040 GB/s Nov 2020 57.5 GB Q6_K Comfortable
17.9 tok/s

15–22

A100X NVIDIA 80 GB 2,040 GB/s Jun 2021 57.5 GB Q6_K Comfortable
17.9 tok/s

15–22

A800 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA 80 GB 2,040 GB/s Aug 2022 57.5 GB Q6_K 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
National Taiwan University
Organisation type
Academia
Country
Taiwan
Published
29 November 2023
Authors
Yen-Ting Lin, Yun-Nung Chen

What it does

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

Domain
Language
Task
Chat, Language modeling/generation, Question answering
Base model
Llama 3-70B
Numerical format
BF16

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
70B
Training data
35,100,000,000 tokens

assuming same amount of tokens as described in the corresponding paper for llama2 based version: pre-training: 35.1 billions tokens (Table 1)

Batch size
2,000,000

"Batch size: 2M tokens per step"

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.

How it was established
Operation counting
Fine-tuning compute
1.5 × 10²² FLOP

6 FLOP / parameter / token * 70 * 10^9 parameters * 35.1 * 10^9 tokens ["Likely" confidence, see dataset size notes] = 1.4742e+22 FLOP

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
48
Power draw
66.6 kW

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

apache 2.0 (I don't see training code here) https://github.com/MiuLab/Taiwan-LLM llama 3 license https://huggingface.co/yentinglin/Llama-3-Taiwan-70B-Instruct

Hugging Face
yentinglin

How it is classified

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

Record confidence
Likely

Sources

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

Reference
Taiwan LLM: Bridging the Linguistic Divide with a Culturally Aligned Language Model
Last updated
28 November 2025

The extremes

What the numbers mean

The hardware side

Minimum card

A100 PCIe 40 GB

Memory needed

33.0 GB

Fastest

48.4 tok/s

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B reaches a parameter count of 70B. That puts it above consumer hardware, into the range where a card is bought for this purpose rather than repurposed for it. The number of cards we track that can hold it: 61.

At the low end it is handled by A100 PCIe 40 GB, with a memory capacity of 40 GB, running it at a compression of Q3_K_M and producing around 25.5 tokens per second.

The quickest result comes from B200, generating roughly 48.4 tokens per second on the strength of a memory bandwidth of 8,000 GB/s.

About this model

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B was published by National Taiwan University, in the country recorded as Taiwan, during November 2023. The publishing organisation is categorised as academia.

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

Its starting point was an existing base model, Llama 3-70B. That is the usual way a specialised model is produced.

Because its weights were released, nothing about running it depends on a provider staying available — it is yours once downloaded. On Hugging Face it is published under the organisation yentinglin.

How fast it runs, and why

Across every card that can run it, the middle of the range sits at 17.1 tokens per second. Producing text faster than most people read it: 49 of them.

It is a dense model, so every parameter is read for every token produced. That makes speed track memory bandwidth almost exactly — a card with twice the bandwidth generates roughly twice as fast.

Because the architecture is recorded, the memory column is derived rather than estimated.

Training and provenance

It was trained on a corpus of about 35,100,000,000 tokens of text.

Step by step

How to choose a GPU for Llama-3-Taiwan-70B

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

  1. 01

    Read the memory figure first

    The table lists every card able to hold Llama-3-Taiwan-70B, needing around 33.0 GB at a compression of Q3_K_M. Capacity is the gate — a card either holds it or it does not.

  2. 02

    Decide how long your conversations run

    Set the context to what you will actually use. The cache grows with the conversation, and it is the usual reason a card that seemed fine stops fitting Llama-3-Taiwan-70B.

  3. 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.

  4. 04

    Rank by throughput rather than spec sheet

    Sort by speed to see how cards rank for Llama-3-Taiwan-70B. It will not match a gaming ordering, because generation is bound by memory bandwidth. The card topping the list is B200, at 48.4 tok/s.

  5. 05

    Look at the headroom, not just the fit

    Tight means it loads and works with no room to raise the context later, in the case of Llama-3-Taiwan-70B. 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.

  6. 06

    See what else that card runs

    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 Llama-3-Taiwan-70B.

Answers

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B — common questions

01

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B— would two GPUs run it faster?

Two cards buy memory rather than speed, which matters only if one card cannot hold it. The number that can: 61. So a second card is rarely the answer here.

02

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B— why does the quantisation differ between cards?

A larger card holds a more accurate copy. The number of compression levels used across the cards that run it: 4. Bigger cards get the more accurate version, and the quality floor above pins the comparison to one level.

03

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B— how accurate are these speed estimates?

They are calculated from specifications rather than measured, and each carries a range. One example: 41–58 tok/s on B200. The same model and card vary by thirty to fifty per cent depending on the inference software and its version.

04

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B— what GPU do I need to run it?

The smallest card in our catalogue that holds it is A100 PCIe 40 GB, with a memory capacity of 40 GB. It runs the model at a compression of Q3_K_M using about 33.0 GB, and produces roughly 25.5 tokens per second. The number of cards able to run it in total: 61.

05

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B— how fast is it on a GPU?

It depends on the card. The quickest we calculate is B200, at about 48.4 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: 49.

06

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B— how much VRAM does it need?

It needs about 33.0 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.

07

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B— 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.

08

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 70B. 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.

09

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B— who created it?

It was published by National Taiwan University, based in Taiwan, an organisation categorised as academia.

10

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B— when was it released?

It was published in November 2023. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

11

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as handling the task of chat, Language modeling/generation, Question answering. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.

12

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B— where can I download it?

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

13

Llama-3-Taiwan-70B— can I run it if it does not fit in my GPU?

It can be split between the card and system memory, but it generates painfully slowly that way. The nearest miss we calculate falls short by 12.4 GB. Every figure here assumes the whole model is resident on the card.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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