What GPU do I need to run Applied-Innovation-Center/Karnak-40B-v1.0?
40.7B parameters, published in BF16. View on Hugging Face
Set up Karnak-40B-v1.0Karnak-40B-v1.0 is published by Applied-Innovation-Center on Hugging Face, with 2,748 downloads and 68 likes to date. It's a Qwen3MoeForCausalLM model built for text-generation, published natively in BF16.
VRAM required & cheapest live GPU fit
Required VRAM = weight size at each precision, plus a fixed overhead for KV-cache, activations, and fragmentation. Full formula and assumptions: methodology.
A GPU is only matched to a row if its hardware supports that precision, and the primary recommendation is always a single-GPU fit when one exists.
INT4 requires a quantized checkpoint actually published for this model, check its Hugging Face page before relying on this row.
Cheapest way to run Karnak-40B-v1.0 at its published (BF16) precision: 1× RTX PRO 6000 on simplepod, at $1.59/hr per GPU ($1.59/hr total). Quantizing to FP8 or INT4 (rows above) can cost less, but requires a compatible quantized checkpoint to exist for this model.
Weight-to-VRAM math, the fit rules, and how live prices are normalized: full methodology.
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