Can I run SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct on an NVIDIA H200?

Yes

Its published weights (2.03 GB) fit in the 127 GB an NVIDIA H200 can use, with room for ≈ 8K tokens of context.

Full analysis of SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct Everything that runs on NVIDIA H200 Get the weights on Hugging Face

hf download HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct

Files and context on NVIDIA H200

Each file of SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct (and of GGUF versions the site has analyzed), and how much context fits next to it, with the context cache in 16-bit or 8-bit.

File	Size	On NVIDIA H200	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
As published	2.03 GB	Fits	8K	8K
4-bit (estimate)	285 MB	Fits	8K	8K

SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct on other hardware

NVIDIA H200Yes
NVIDIA H100Yes
RTX 5090Yes
RTX 4090Yes
RTX 3090Yes
RTX 5060 Ti 16 GBYes
RTX 3060 12 GBYes
RTX 4060Yes
Mac with 32 GBYes
Mac with 64 GBYes
Mac with 128 GBYes

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Assumes 90% of the card's memory is usable and at least 4K tokens of context for one conversation, with the context cache in 16-bit unless noted. Fits leaves at least 20% of that memory for context; Tight leaves less.