Laguna S 2.1 on an H100 80GB (SXM5)
Yes, quantized. Q4_K_M is the largest that fits, leaving room for 143k tokens of context.
Verdict
Q4_K_M
73.6 GiB usable of 80 GB
Weights (Q4_K_M)
66.8 GiB
219.0 GiB at FP16 · 117.6B params · 6 of 6 quant rows are measured files
KV cache
192.0 KiB per token at FP16
48 layers × 8 KV heads × 128 dimensions
Speed ceiling
685 tok/s
3350 GB/s ÷ bytes read per token
Every quant, against this card
Weight bytes are the size of the real published file wherever one exists — 6 of these6 rows are measured from bartowski/Laguna-S-2.1-GGUF, the rest computed from the parameter count. Max context is what the KV cache can grow to in whatever memory the weights leave behind, capped at the 1.0M tokens this model was trained to address.
| Precision | Bits/weight | Weights | Source | Fits | Max context | Ceiling |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP16 / BF16 | 16.00 | 219.0 GiB | measured file | −145.4 GiB | — | 8.8 tok/s offloaded |
| Q8_0 | 8.51 | 116.4 GiB | measured file | −42.8 GiB | — | 26.2 tok/s offloaded |
| Q6_K | 6.92 | 94.7 GiB | measured file | −21.1 GiB | — | 45.0 tok/s offloaded |
| Q5_K_M | 5.72 | 78.2 GiB | measured file | −4.6 GiB | — | 98.5 tok/s offloaded |
| Q4_K_M | 4.88 | 66.8 GiB | measured file | yes | 146,336 | 685 tok/s |
| Q3_K_M | 3.68 | 50.3 GiB | measured file | yes | 506,885 | 882 tok/s |
What the context actually costs
The KV cache is 2 · layers · kv_heads · head_dim bytes per token per element — 2 · 48 · 8 · 128 · 2 B = 192.0 KiB. It depends on the key/value head count, not the attention-head count and not the parameter count. This model shares 8 KV heads across 48 query heads, which divides the cache by 6 against multi-head attention.
Sliding-window attention. 36 of this model's 48 layers attend to a 512-token window and stop growing there; only the remaining 12 keep scaling with context. That is why the cache figures below flatten out — and why a calculator that ignores the layer pattern over-states this model's long-context footprint several times over.
| Context | KV cache (FP16) | KV cache (8-bit) | Plus Q4_K_M weights |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,096 | 264 MiB | 132 MiB | 67.1 GiB |
| 8,192 | 456 MiB | 228 MiB | 67.3 GiB |
| 32,768 | 1.6 GiB | 804 MiB | 68.4 GiB |
| 131,072 | 6.1 GiB | 3.0 GiB | 72.9 GiB |
The speed ceiling, and where it comes from
Generating one token reads every active weight from memory once. At Q4_K_M that is 4.1 GiB — only 6% of the checkpoint, because this is a mixture of experts and each token is routed to 10 of 256, plus a pass over the KV cache. An H100 80GB (SXM5) moves 3350 GB/s, so the arithmetic ceiling is 685 tok/s. Treat it as a bound, not an estimate: attention overhead, kernel launches and imperfect memory access keep real runtimes at roughly 60–80% of it, and nothing pushes past it.
Where these numbers come from
The model
- Parameters
- 117,561,977,600
- Layers
- 48
- Attention / KV heads
- 48 / 8
- Head dimension
- 128
- Trained context
- 1,048,576
- Checkpoint as published
- 219.0 GiB
Read from poolside/Laguna-S-2.1. The parameter count is the Hub's own total over the tensor shapes, not a figure taken from the model's name.
The accelerator
- Memory
- 80 GB HBM3
- Bandwidth
- 3350 GB/s
- Assumed usable
- 92% → 73.6 GiB
Capacity and bandwidth from the vendor's specification. The usable fraction is an assumption, not a spec: a driver context, compute workspace and any attached display come out of the same pool before a weight is loaded.
Questions this pairing answers
How much VRAM does Laguna S 2.1 need?
219.0 GiB for the weights at FP16 — 117.6B parameters at two bytes each — and 66.8 GiB at Q4_K_M. The KV cache is on top of that and is not a fixed number: this model spends 192.0 KiB per token of context on its full-attention layers, so 8,192 tokens costs a further 456 MiB. An H100 80GB (SXM5) makes 73.6 GiB of its 80 GB available on the assumption below.
Can an H100 80GB (SXM5) run Laguna S 2.1?
Yes, quantized. Q4_K_M is the largest that fits, leaving room for 143k tokens of context. That is the weights and the KV cache together, against 73.6 GiB of usable memory.
How fast will Laguna S 2.1 run on an H100 80GB (SXM5)?
No faster than 685 tokens/second at Q4_K_M, and in practice below it. Decoding is memory-bound: every token reads the 6% of weights this MoE routes to 4.1 GiB of weights plus the cache, and this card moves 3350 GB/s. That division is the ceiling — no kernel, runtime or driver beats it, and a real runtime typically reaches 60–80% of it.
Why does the context length change how much memory Laguna S 2.1 needs?
Because the KV cache holds one key and one value vector per token, per layer, for the whole conversation, and it is allocated separately from the weights. This model has 48 layers and 8 key/value heads of 128 dimensions, shared across 48 query heads — grouped-query attention, which divides the cache by 6. That works out at 192.0 KiB per token, except that 36 of the 48 layers use a 512-token sliding window and stop growing there. Parameter count tells you nothing about this number.
The same model on a different card
- A100 80GB (SXM)Q4_K_M
- Jetson AGX Orin (64GB)no fit
- RTX 6000 Ada Generationno fit
- L40Sno fit
- Apple M4 Pro (48GB)no fit
- A100 40GB (SXM)no fit
- GeForce RTX 5090no fit
- Apple M4 Max (128GB)Q6_K
A different model on the same card
All 62 models on H100 80GB (SXM5) →- gpt-oss 120BFP16 / BF16
- Qwen2.5 72B InstructQ8_0
- DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama 70BQ8_0
- Llama 3.1 70B InstructQ8_0
- Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B InstructQ8_0
- Llama 3.3 70B InstructQ8_0
- Mixtral 8x7B InstructQ8_0
- Hermes 4.3 36BFP16 / BF16
Method and limits. Weight bytes are the byte size of the real published file wherever one exists, and the model's exact parameter count times the published llama.cpp bits-per-weight where it does not. That distinction is on every row above and it matters at both ends: a sub-1B model's Q4_K_M file runs a third larger than the nominal figure because k-quants keep its embedding tables at higher precision, and an already-4-bit release cannot be quantized upward at all. The KV cache is 2 · layers · kv_heads · head_dim · bytes per token, summed over layers with each sliding-window layer capped at its window. The speed figure is a roofline bound, not a benchmark: bandwidth divided by bytes read per token, which no runtime exceeds and every runtime falls short of. The usable fraction of card memory is an assumption: 92% here, which is what this lane assumes for a dedicated card — the other class assumes 75%, so it is not one number applied to every device. That is the only assumed input on this page; every other figure is computed from the model config and the card's published specification. Nothing on this page is written by a language model. Architecture from the model's published config, fetched 2026-08-07.