Can I run Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Base on an NVIDIA B200?

Yes

Its published weights (98.2 GB) fit in the 162 GB an NVIDIA B200 can use, with room for ≈ 8.5M tokens of context.

Full analysis of Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Base Everything that runs on NVIDIA B200 Get the weights on Hugging Face

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Files and context on NVIDIA B200

Each file of Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Base (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 B200	Context (16-bit)	Context (8-bit)
As published	98.2 GB	Fits	8.5M	17.0M
4-bit (estimate)	27.6 GB	Fits	17.9M	35.7M

Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Base on other hardware

NVIDIA B200Yes
NVIDIA H100Probably, at 4-bit
RTX 5090Probably, at 4-bit
RTX 4090No
RTX 3090No
RTX 5060 Ti 16 GBNo
RTX 3060 12 GBNo
RTX 4060No
Mac with 32 GBNo
Mac with 64 GBProbably, at 4-bit
Mac with 128 GBProbably, at 4-bit

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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.