Calculate the TPS of the H100 SXM5 64 GB on local AI models

NVIDIA 64 GB HBM3 2,020 GB/s March 2023

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

Calculated for this card

595 of 679 models it can run

Largest model it holds

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

122B · Q3_K_M · 105 tok/s

Fastest model

Gemma 3 QAT 1B

856 tok/s · 1B

What AI models can a H100 SXM5 64 GB run?

Set the inputs, read the answer

More context means more memory for the conversation cache. Speed is for a fresh conversation and does not change with this setting.

Hides models that would only fit by being compressed below this point.

595 models match

Calculating
Quantisation Fit
856 tok/s

727–1,027

Gemma 3 1B 1B Mar 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
856 tok/s

727–1,027

Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B Apr 2025 1.8 GB 33k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
856 tok/s

513–1,369 · low confidence

HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B Nov 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
856 tok/s

513–1,369 · low confidence

LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B Dec 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
856 tok/s

513–1,369 · low confidence

OLMo-1B 1B Feb 2024 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
856 tok/s

513–1,369 · low confidence

Pythia-1b 1B Apr 2023 1.8 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
792 tok/s

475–1,267 · low confidence

OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B May 2024 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
778 tok/s

467–1,244 · low confidence

DeciCoder-1B 1.1B Aug 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
778 tok/s

467–1,244 · low confidence

SantaCoder 1.1B Jan 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
778 tok/s

467–1,244 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
778 tok/s

467–1,244 · low confidence

TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B Oct 2023 1.9 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
713 tok/s

428–1,141 · low confidence

EXAONE 4.0 (1.2B) 1.2B Jul 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
713 tok/s

428–1,141 · low confidence

MinerU2.5 1.2B Sep 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
713 tok/s

428–1,141 · low confidence

Pleias 1.0 1.2B 1.2B Dec 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
713 tok/s

428–1,141 · low confidence

Pleias-RAG-1B 1.2B Apr 2025 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
696 tok/s

591–835

Llama 3.2 1B 1.2B Sep 2024 2.2 GB 131k tokens Q8_0 Comfortable
686 tok/s

412–1,097 · low confidence

MiniCPM-1.2B 1.2B Jun 2024 2.0 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
658 tok/s

395–1,053 · low confidence

DeepSeek Coder 1.3B 1.3B Jan 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
658 tok/s

395–1,053 · low confidence

DeepSeek-VL-1.3B 1.3B Mar 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
658 tok/s

395–1,053 · low confidence

DigiRL 1.3B Jun 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
658 tok/s

395–1,053 · low confidence

GLA Transformer 1.3B 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
658 tok/s

395–1,053 · low confidence

Janus 1.3B 1.3B Oct 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
658 tok/s

395–1,053 · low confidence

Kosmos-2.5 1.3B Aug 2024 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
658 tok/s

395–1,053 · low confidence

Otter 1.3B May 2023 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? Q8_0 Comfortable
658 tok/s

395–1,053 · low confidence

Phi-1 1.3B Oct 2023 2.1 GB 131k tokens ? 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

H100 SXM5 64 GB full specification

Everything on record for this board, ordered by how much it bears on running a language model rather than by how a spec sheet would list it. Memory comes first because it decides the outcome; the rest is context.

Memory

The two specifications that decide what this card can run and how quickly. Capacity sets which models fit; bandwidth sets how many tokens per second they produce once they do.

Memory size
64 GB
Memory bandwidth
2,020 GB/s
Memory type
HBM3
Memory bus width
3,072 bit
Memory clock
1.31 GHz

The chip

Which processor is on the board and how it was manufactured. A smaller process size generally means more performance for the same power.

Graphics processor
GH100
Architecture
Hopper
Generation
Server Hopper(Hxx)
Foundry
TSMC
Process size
5 nm
Transistors
80 billion
Transistor density
98,300 K/mm²
Die size
814 mm²
Released
21 March 2023

Clock speeds

How fast the processor runs. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: generating text is limited by memory bandwidth, so a higher clock barely moves the result.

Base clock
1.67 GHz
Boost clock
1.98 GHz

Processing units

What the chip contains. These drive graphics performance and matter mainly for processing a long prompt rather than for producing the answer.

Shading units
16,896
Texture mapping units
528
Render output units
24
Streaming multiprocessors
132
Tensor cores
528
L1 cache
250 KB
L2 cache
30 MB

Theoretical performance

Peak arithmetic rates published for the board. These are ceilings that no real workload reaches, and generating text reaches a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory rather than arithmetic.

Half precision (FP16)
267.6 TFLOPS
Single precision (FP32)
66.9 TFLOPS
Double precision (FP64)
33.5 TFLOPS
Pixel rate
48 GPixel/s
Texture rate
1,045 GTexel/s

The board

What it takes to physically install and power the card — the practical constraints that decide whether it fits the machine you already own.

Power draw (TDP)
700 W
Suggested power supply
1,100 W
Power connectors
8-pin EPS
Bus interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
Slot width
SXM Module

Software support

Which graphics and compute interfaces the card supports. CUDA compute capability is the one that bears on inference: below 7.0 there are no tensor cores, and modern inference software falls back to slower code paths.

CUDA compute capability
9.0
OpenCL
3.0

Listings

Where to buy a H100 SXM5 64 GB

No vendor is currently listing this card. Listings come from vendors who publish them here directly — browse the vendor directory to see who is selling what.

What the numbers mean

Memory: the specification that decides everything

Memory

64 GB

Bandwidth

2,020 GB/s

Largest model

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B

The H100 SXM5 64 GB carries 64 GB of HBM3, which covers the mid-sized models most people actually run — about 57.6 GB of it after the runtime and driver reserve their working space.

Its 2,020 GB/s across a 3,072-bit bus is at the top of what exists. Since each token means reading the whole model out of memory once, that translates almost directly into generation speed — this card is bandwidth-rich enough that model size stops being the limiting factor long before the bus does.

That comes from a 1.31 GHz memory clock across the bus width above. Widening the bus and raising the clock are the two levers a manufacturer has, which is why a card with unremarkable cores can still generate quickly.

In practice that combination tops out at Qwen3.5-122B-A10B — 122B, compressed to Q3_K_M, generating around 105 tokens per second.

The chip and how it was built

The H100 SXM5 64 GB is built on the GH100 graphics processor, using NVIDIA's Hopper architecture, as part of the Server Hopper(Hxx) generation.

The chip is manufactured by TSMC, on a 5 nm process, with a die measuring 814 mm², holding 80 billion transistors. A smaller process generally means more performance for the same power, though for language models it matters far less than the memory subsystem.

It was released in March 2023, roughly 3 years ago. Inference software support tends to follow hardware by a year or two, so a card of this age generally has mature, well-optimised code paths available to it.

Compute throughput, and why it matters less than it looks

FP16

267.6 TFLOPS

FP64

33.5 TFLOPS

Tensor cores

528

On paper the H100 SXM5 64 GB reaches 267.6 TFLOPS at half precision and 66.9 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak figures no real workload sustains, and generating text reaches only a small fraction of them — decoding is limited by memory rather than arithmetic, which is why a card can look enormously powerful here and still produce tokens at an ordinary rate.

Double-precision throughput is 33.5 TFLOPS. It has no bearing on running a language model — no inference runtime uses it — but it separates datacentre parts from consumer ones, since the latter deliberately restrict it.

The card carries 528 tensor cores across 132 streaming multiprocessors. These accelerate the matrix arithmetic at the heart of a transformer, and they are what make prompt processing — reading a long document before answering — dramatically faster than it would otherwise be.

Clocks run from 1.67 GHz at base to 1.98 GHz boosted. Worth far less here than on a gaming benchmark: raising the clock speeds up the arithmetic, and the arithmetic is not what generation is waiting on.

Cache and processing units

The H100 SXM5 64 GB has 250 KB of L1 cache, backed by 30 MB of L2. Cache absorbs a share of the memory traffic that would otherwise hit the main bus, which is the one place on this page where a number other than bandwidth quietly affects generation speed — a large L2 lets more of the working set stay close to the cores.

There are 16,896 shading units, 528 texture mapping units, and 24 render output units. These drive graphics workloads and contribute to prompt processing, but they sit idle for much of the time a model spends generating a reply.

Power, size and installation

Power draw

700 W

The H100 SXM5 64 GB is rated at 700 W, with a 1,100 W power supply suggested for the whole system. Running a language model keeps a card busy in bursts rather than continuously — it draws hard while generating and idles between requests — so sustained draw over a working day is usually well below the rated figure.

The board occupies a sxm module, and needs 8-pin EPS. Worth checking against the case and power supply already in the machine, since the largest cards need considerably more of both than a typical desktop provides.

It connects over PCIe 5.0 x16. The interface governs how quickly a model is loaded from disk into the card, not how fast it runs once there, so a narrower link costs a few seconds at startup and nothing thereafter.

The extremes

The largest AI models a H100 SXM5 64 GB can run

The biggest open-weight models that fit on this card, newest first. Each is shown at the best compression the card can hold.

  1. 01 Qwen3.5-122B-A10B 122B · Q3_K_M · Feb 2026 105 tok/s
  2. 02 INTELLECT-3 106B · IQ4_XS · Nov 2025 110 tok/s
  3. 03 Cohere Command A Reasoning 111B · Q3_K_M · Aug 2025 20.8 tok/s
  4. 04 GLM-4.5V 108B · IQ4_XS · Aug 2025 108 tok/s
  5. 05 GLM-4.5-Air 106B · IQ4_XS · Aug 2025 110 tok/s
  6. 06 Command A Vision 112B · Q3_K_M · Jul 2025 20.6 tok/s
  7. 07 Llama 4 Scout 109B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2025 21.2 tok/s
  8. 08 Cohere Command A 111B · Q3_K_M · Mar 2025 20.8 tok/s
  9. 09 Telechat2-115B 115B · Q3_K_M · Sep 2024 20.1 tok/s
  10. 10 Qwen1.5-110B 110B · Q3_K_M · Apr 2024 21.0 tok/s

The fastest AI models on a H100 SXM5 64 GB

Where this card produces tokens quickest. Smaller models dominate here, because generating each token means reading the whole model out of memory once.

  1. 01 Gemma 3 QAT 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 856 tok/s
  2. 02 Gemma 3 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 856 tok/s
  3. 03 LLama 3..2 Typhoon 2 1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 856 tok/s
  4. 04 OLMo-1B 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 856 tok/s
  5. 05 HGRN 1B (WT 103) 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 856 tok/s
  6. 06 Pythia-1b 1B · Q8_0 · 1.8 GB 856 tok/s
  7. 07 OpenELM-1.1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 792 tok/s
  8. 08 TinyLlama-1.1B (1T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 778 tok/s
  9. 09 TinyLlama-1.1B (3T token checkpoint) 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 778 tok/s
  10. 10 DeciCoder-1B 1.1B · Q8_0 · 1.9 GB 778 tok/s

Step by step

How to work out the tokens per second of a H100 SXM5 64 GB

You do not have to calculate anything by hand — the gputps.com calculator on this page has already worked it out for every model this card can hold. Reading off the answer takes six steps.

  1. 01

    Search for the model you want

    All 595 models the H100 SXM5 64 GB handles are already listed. The search box takes a name or a size such as 27b, which matches on parameter count.

  2. 02

    Match the context to your work

    Drag the slider to the conversation length you plan to work at. The cache grows with the conversation, and on 64 GB it is often what pushes a large model over the edge.

  3. 03

    Set a minimum quality if you need one

    Compression is what lets bigger models fit. The quality control drops any model that needs more of it than you are willing to give.

  4. 04

    Look at the range, not just the number

    Each speed is an estimate for a single conversation, with a range beneath it — 856 tok/s on Gemma 3 QAT 1B at the top end here. The same card and model vary by thirty to fifty per cent between inference runtimes.

  5. 05

    Check the memory column before committing

    Compare what each model needs with the 64 GB this card provides. Tight means it works today; comfortable means it still works when the conversation grows.

  6. 06

    Check the same model from the other side

    Following a model through to its own page lists all the hardware that can run it, so you can see where the H100 SXM5 64 GB sits against the alternatives.

Answers

H100 SXM5 64 GB — common questions

01

What AI models can a H100 SXM5 64 GB run?

595 of the 679 open-weight language models we track fit on a H100 SXM5 64 GB and can be run locally on it. The table on this page lists every one, with the memory it needs, the quantisation it runs at and an estimated generation speed.

02

What is the largest AI model a H100 SXM5 64 GB can run?

The largest model in our catalogue that fits on a H100 SXM5 64 GB is Qwen3.5-122B-A10B at 122B parameters, compressed to Q3_K_M. It generates roughly 105 tokens per second and needs about 53.1 GB of the card's memory.

03

How many tokens per second does a H100 SXM5 64 GB produce?

It depends on the model. On a H100 SXM5 64 GB the fastest model we track is Gemma 3 QAT 1B at about 856 tokens per second, while larger models run proportionally slower because each token requires reading the whole model out of memory once. Speeds are estimates for a single conversation at a time.

04

Can a H100 SXM5 64 GB run a 7B model?

Yes. For example a H100 SXM5 64 GB runs Multi-Token Prediction 7B at Q8_0, using about 7.9 GB of memory and generating around 128 tokens per second.

05

Can a H100 SXM5 64 GB run a 13B model?

Yes. For example a H100 SXM5 64 GB runs DeepSeekMoE-16B at Q8_0, using about 17.5 GB of memory and generating around 297 tokens per second.

06

Can a H100 SXM5 64 GB run a 30B model?

Yes. For example a H100 SXM5 64 GB runs ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B at Q8_0, using about 29.2 GB of memory and generating around 170 tokens per second.

07

Can a H100 SXM5 64 GB run a 70B model?

Yes. For example a H100 SXM5 64 GB runs Qwen3-Coder-Next at Q5_K_M, using about 52.7 GB of memory and generating around 106 tokens per second.

08

How much memory does a H100 SXM5 64 GB have?

A H100 SXM5 64 GB has 64 GB of HBM3 memory. Around a tenth of that is reserved by the inference runtime and the driver, leaving roughly 57.6 GB available for a model and its conversation.

09

What is the memory bandwidth of a H100 SXM5 64 GB?

The H100 SXM5 64 GB has 2,020 GB/s of memory bandwidth, across a 3,072-bit memory bus. This is the single best predictor of how fast it generates text, because producing each token means reading the entire model out of memory once.

10

What type of memory does a H100 SXM5 64 GB use?

It uses HBM3 clocked at 1.31 GHz. HBM types are found on datacentre accelerators and carry far more bandwidth than the GDDR used on desktop cards, which is why they generate tokens considerably faster at the same capacity.

11

Who makes the H100 SXM5 64 GB?

The H100 SXM5 64 GB is a NVIDIA product, with the chip manufactured by TSMC, on a 5 nm process.

12

When was the H100 SXM5 64 GB released?

The H100 SXM5 64 GB was released in March 2023.

13

How much power does a H100 SXM5 64 GB use?

The H100 SXM5 64 GB has a rated board power of 700 W, and a 1,100 W system power supply is suggested. Generating text draws hard in bursts and idles between requests, so average consumption over a working session is normally well below the rated figure.

14

How much cache does a H100 SXM5 64 GB have?

The H100 SXM5 64 GB has 250 KB of L1 cache, and 30 MB of L2 cache. Cache absorbs part of the memory traffic that would otherwise reach the main bus, so a larger L2 gives a modest lift to generation speed beyond what bandwidth alone predicts.

15

What are the TFLOPS of a H100 SXM5 64 GB?

The H100 SXM5 64 GB is rated at 267.6 TFLOPS at half precision and 66.9 TFLOPS at single precision. These are peak arithmetic ceilings rather than achievable rates, and text generation reaches only a small fraction of them because it is limited by memory bandwidth instead.

16

How many tensor cores does a H100 SXM5 64 GB have?

The H100 SXM5 64 GB has 528 tensor cores across 132 streaming multiprocessors. They accelerate the matrix arithmetic a transformer is built from, which mainly speeds up processing a long prompt rather than producing the reply.

17

Does the H100 SXM5 64 GB support CUDA?

Yes. The H100 SXM5 64 GB reports CUDA compute capability 9.0. Capability 7.0 and above has tensor cores, which modern inference software uses; below that it falls back to slower code paths for quantised models.

18

What bus interface does the H100 SXM5 64 GB use?

It uses PCIe 5.0 x16. This governs how fast a model is loaded onto the card rather than how fast it runs once loaded, so it costs a few seconds at startup and nothing during generation.

19

Is the H100 SXM5 64 GB good for running local AI models?

Its memory is large enough for models most desktop hardware cannot touch and its bandwidth puts it among the fastest hardware available for generation. In total it runs 595 of the models we track. Whether that is enough depends entirely on which model you want — the table above answers that directly.

20

Can a H100 SXM5 64 GB run a model that does not fit in its memory?

Only partly. Layers beyond the 64 GB sit in system memory and run at a fraction of the speed, so a mostly-offloaded model is rarely worth using. Every figure here assumes it is fully resident on the card.

21

Would two H100 SXM5 64 GB cards be twice as fast?

Capacity adds, throughput does not. Two of them give you 128 GB to work with rather than twice the tokens per second — every figure here is for a single H100 SXM5 64 GB.

The other direction

Looking at it from the other side?

This page starts from the hardware. If you already know which model you want and need to know what it takes to run it, start from the model instead.

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