Motif-3 TPS calculator

Open weights Motif Technologies 314B parameters August 2026

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

7 cards that can run it

818 cards we hold specifications for

Smallest card that fits

B200

180 GB · Q3_K_M · 29.1 tok/s

Fastest card

B200

29.1 tok/s · 180 GB

Which GPUs can run Motif-3?

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

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7 cards match

Calculating
Needs Quantisation Fit
29.1 tok/s

17–47 · low confidence

B200 NVIDIA 180 GB 8,000 GB/s Jan 2024 154.1 GB Q3_K_M Tight
19.3 tok/s

12–31 · low confidence

B300 NVIDIA 288 GB 8,000 GB/s Sep 2025 227.2 GB Q5_K_M Tight
15.4 tok/s

9–25 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI350X AMD 288 GB 8,190 GB/s Jan 2025 227.2 GB Q5_K_M Tight
15.4 tok/s

9–25 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI355X AMD 288 GB 8,190 GB/s Jan 2025 227.2 GB Q5_K_M Tight
13.8 tok/s

8–22 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI300X AMD 192 GB 5,325 GB/s Dec 2023 172.4 GB IQ4_XS Tight
13.8 tok/s

8–22 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI308X AMD 192 GB 5,325 GB/s Dec 2023 172.4 GB IQ4_XS Tight
11.3 tok/s

7–18 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI325X AMD 256 GB 6,000 GB/s Oct 2024 227.2 GB Q5_K_M Tight

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
Motif Technologies
Organisation type
Industry
Country
Korea (Republic of)
Published
7 August 2026
Authors
Joon Son Chung, Sungmin Lee, Junghwan Lim (technical and management leadership); Wai Ting Cheung, Gihun Cho, Minsu Ha, Sangho Kang, Beomgyu Kim, Dongseok Kim, Jangwoong Kim, Taehyun Kim, Taewhan Kim, Jeesoo Lee, Jeongdoo Lee, Junhyeok Lee, Dongpin Oh (core contributors); see the technical report Contributions section for the full list

What it does

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

Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling/generation, Chat, Question answering, Code generation, Mathematical reasoning, Instruction interpretation

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
314B

Fine-grained sparse MoE: approximately 314B total parameters, ~13.2B activated per token. 53 Transformer layers (2 dense + 51 MoE); each MoE layer has 384 routed experts + 1 shared expert, with top-8 routing. Grouped Differential Latent Attention (GDLA), modified manifold-constrained hyper-connections, Expert-Specific PolyNorm, and a 1-layer MTP head. Trained from scratch.

Training data
tokens

~12.5 trillion pretraining tokens, measured with the Motif tokenizer (technical report). Motif's SuperBPE tokenizer has higher compression than comparison tokenizers; the report notes the same corpus corresponds to >15T tokens in comparison tokenizers. The developer-provided spreadsheet states 13T tokens. Post-training (SFT + RL teachers + distillation) adds more data.

Epochs
1

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
1.1 × 10²⁴ FLOP

1.1e24 FLOP reported by Motif Technologies in a spreadsheet provided via email (August 2026). Note an internal inconsistency in the developer-reported hardware figures: 768 B200 GPUs for ~100 days (~2,400 hours) at the claimed 18.3% MFU would imply ~2.7e24 FLOP at BF16 peak throughput; 1.1e24 FLOP over that duration implies ~7% MFU. The token-based cross-check supports the 1.1e24 figure, so the MFU claim was not recorded.

How it was established
Reported

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 B200
Chips used
768
Wall-clock time
2,400 hours (100 days)

Developer-reported: approximately 100 days net training time on 768 NVIDIA B200 GPUs (~1.84M GPU-hours). See Training compute notes for an inconsistency between this duration, the reported FLOP figure, and the claimed MFU.

Power draw
1.5 MW

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 (unrestricted)
Hugging Face
Motif-Technologies

How it is classified

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

Why it is tracked
Training cost

Developer-reported training of ~1.84M B200 GPU-hours (768 GPUs x ~100 days) exceeds the training cost threshold; comparable to A.X K2 ($12.4M reported for 1.8e24 FLOP)

Record confidence
Confident

Sources

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

Reference
Motif 3: Technical Report
Last updated
10 August 2026

What the numbers mean

What it takes to run this model

Minimum card

B200

Memory needed

154.1 GB

Fastest

29.1 tok/s

Motif-3 reaches a parameter count of 314B. That is beyond what any single graphics card holds. Running it means either splitting it across several cards or renting hardware built for the job, and every card able to hold it alone is a datacentre part. The number that can: 7.

The smallest card that holds it is B200, with a memory capacity of 180 GB, running it at a compression of Q3_K_M and producing around 29.1 tokens per second.

The quickest result comes from B200, generating roughly 29.1 tokens per second on the strength of a memory bandwidth of 8,000 GB/s.

Background

Motif-3 was published by Motif Technologies, in the country recorded as Korea (Republic of), during August 2026. It comes out of an organisation categorised as industry.

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

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 Motif-Technologies.

Reading the throughput figures

Half the cards that hold it manage more than 15.4 tokens per second. Producing text faster than most people read it: 7 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.

Memory here is estimated from size rather than computed from the architecture, which is not recorded for this model — the numbers are indicative rather than exact.

How it was trained

Producing it required arithmetic totalling around 1.1 × 10²⁴ FLOP, on hardware recorded as NVIDIA B200. That figure measures what producing the model cost, and has no bearing on how fast it answers.

The reason it appears in this catalogue at all: training cost.

Step by step

How to choose a GPU for Motif-3

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

  1. 01

    Check what it needs before anything else

    Start from what it actually needs, which is the requirement of Motif-3, needing around 154.1 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

    The conversation occupies memory too, and grows as it goes. Set the slider to the length you expect, because at long context a card that handles short questions easily can be dropped by Motif-3.

  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

    Ranking by tokens per second follows memory bandwidth rather than core counts, for Motif-3. It will not match a gaming ordering, because generation is bound by memory bandwidth. The card topping the list is B200, at 29.1 tok/s.

  5. 05

    Read the fit column last

    A tight fit runs, but leaves nothing spare for a longer conversation, in the case of Motif-3. 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

    Check the card from the other side

    Each card page repeats this sweep for every model we hold, answering what else the hardware is good for beyond Motif-3.

Answers

Motif-3 — common questions

01

Motif-3— how much VRAM does it need?

It needs about 154.1 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.

02

Motif-3— 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.

03

Motif-3— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 314B. Fine-grained sparse MoE: approximately 314B total parameters, ~13.2B activated per token. 53 Transformer layers (2 dense + 51 MoE); each MoE layer has 384 routed experts + 1 shared expert, with top-8 routing. Grouped Differential Latent Attention (GDLA), modified manifold-constrained hyper-connections, Expert-Specific PolyNorm, and a 1-layer MTP head. Trained from scratch. 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.

04

Motif-3— who created it?

It was published by Motif Technologies, based in Korea (Republic of), an organisation categorised as industry.

05

Motif-3— when was it released?

It was published in August 2026.

06

Motif-3— what is it used for?

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

07

Motif-3— where can I download it?

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

08

Motif-3— how much compute was used to train it?

Training consumed around 1.1 × 10²⁴ FLOP, on hardware recorded as NVIDIA B200. 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.

09

Motif-3— 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 63.8 GB. Every figure here assumes the whole model is resident on the card.

10

Motif-3— would two GPUs run it faster?

A second card roughly doubles the memory available but not the generation rate. The number already able to run it alone: 7. So a second card is rarely the answer here.

11

Motif-3— 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: 3. Bigger cards get the more accurate version, and the quality floor above pins the comparison to one level.

12

Motif-3— how accurate are these speed estimates?

Every figure is derived from memory bandwidth and model size, not benchmarked, which is why each is published as a range rather than a single number. One example: 17–47 tok/s on B200. The same model and card vary by thirty to fifty per cent depending on the inference software and its version.

13

Motif-3— what GPU do I need to run it?

The smallest card in our catalogue that holds it is B200, with a memory capacity of 180 GB. It runs the model at a compression of Q3_K_M using about 154.1 GB, and produces roughly 29.1 tokens per second. The number of cards able to run it in total: 7.

14

Motif-3— how fast is it on a GPU?

It depends on the card. The quickest we calculate is B200, at about 29.1 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: 7.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 10 August 2026

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