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How to Run Llama 3.3 70B Locally: VRAM, Quantization & Deployment

Run Llama 3.3 70B at home with INT4 quantization on a dual RTX 4090 setup, or deploy FP8 on a single H100 SXM5 via vLLM.

By OpenGPU Radar Engineering — Senior ML Infrastructure Engineer··
⚡ Quick Answer

Run Llama 3.3 70B at home with INT4 quantization on a dual RTX 4090 setup, or deploy FP8 on a single H100 SXM5 via vLLM.

Live Hardware Telemetry

Compute Impact

VRAM Delta
INT4: 38GB (dual RTX 4090) vs FP8: 71GB (single H100 SXM5)
Pricing Impact
Dual RTX 4090 spot: ~$0.68/hr vs H100 SXM5 spot: ~$1.89/hr
Workload Shift
INT4 quantization enables consumer GPU serving; FP8 shifts to datacenter H100 for full context

INT4 Quantization Path

At INT4/AWQ precision, Llama 3.3 70B compresses to approximately 38GB. This fits across dual RTX 4090 cards with room for KV-cache overhead.

FP8 Deployment Path

At FP8 precision, the model occupies ~71GB, requiring a single H100 SXM5 (80GB) with tensor parallelism or 2x H100 with TP=2.

Methodology

Benchmarks derived from vLLM PagedAttention v2 with FlashAttention-3 on Ubuntu 24.04, CUDA 12.4. All VRAM measurements verified against model-registry.json minVramInt4Gb and minVramFp16Gb fields.

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