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Best hardware to run StarCoder2 3B

The minimum self-hostable option and a comfortable recommended build for StarCoder2 3B, plus the top devices that run it well.

Minimum

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB

Fits at FP16 (~6GB) with ~4.6GB headroom — about 1 concurrent instance.

Recommended

Supermicro 8x H100 SuperServer

Fits at FP16 (~6GB) with ~557.2GB headroom — about 93 concurrent instances.

Top devices that run it well

  • Supermicro 8x H100 SuperServer
    Supermicro · AI Servers

    Fits at FP16 (~6GB) with ~557.2GB headroom — about 93 concurrent instances.

    FP16 · ~6GBRuns well
  • Dell PowerEdge XE9680
    Dell · AI Servers

    Fits at FP16 (~6GB) with ~557.2GB headroom — about 93 concurrent instances.

    FP16 · ~6GBRuns well
  • AMD Instinct MI300X
    AMD · Datacenter GPUs

    Fits at FP16 (~6GB) with ~163GB headroom — about 28 concurrent instances.

    FP16 · ~6GBRuns well
  • NVIDIA H200 (141GB)
    NVIDIA · Datacenter GPUs

    Fits at FP16 (~6GB) with ~118.1GB headroom — about 20 concurrent instances.

    FP16 · ~6GBRuns well
  • Cloud H200 141GB (profile)
    Cloud · Cloud GPU Profiles

    Fits at FP16 (~6GB) with ~118.1GB headroom — about 20 concurrent instances.

    FP16 · ~6GBRuns well
  • NVIDIA H100 (80GB)
    NVIDIA · Datacenter GPUs

    Fits at FP16 (~6GB) with ~64.4GB headroom — about 11 concurrent instances.

    FP16 · ~6GBRuns well

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