Can I run AesCode-8B on an RTX 6000 Ada?

Yes

Its published weights (17.5 GB) fit in the 43.2 GB an RTX 6000 Ada can use, with room for ≈ 170K tokens of context.

Full analysis of AesCode-8B Everything that runs on RTX 6000 Ada Get the weights on Hugging Face

hf download microsoft/AesCode-8B

Files and context on RTX 6000 Ada

Each file of AesCode-8B (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 RTX 6000 Ada	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
As published	17.5 GB	Fits	170K	256K
4-bit (estimate)	4.93 GB	Fits	253K	256K

AesCode-8B on other hardware

NVIDIA H100Yes
RTX 5090Yes
RTX 4090Yes, just
RTX 3090Yes, just
RTX 5060 Ti 16 GBProbably, at 4-bit
RTX 3060 12 GBProbably, at 4-bit
RTX 4060Probably, at 4-bit
RTX 6000 AdaYes
Mac with 32 GBYes, just
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.