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It has become possible to fine-tune 70B-class models on a single A100 80GB GPU using QLoRA.
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50%
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Medium-term (~90 days)
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7/8/2026
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Valid until: 10/6/2026(expired)
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UnverifiedFull fine-tuning of a 70B-scale model requires at least 8 A100 80G GPUs.80% similarUnverifiedA single A100 (80 GB VRAM) can run 7B–13B scale models, while 4× A100s (320 GB VRAM) can run 70B scale models.75% similarPartially VerifiedThe QLoRA paper verified that NF4 quantization combined with LoRA fine-tuning can reduce memory requirements from 780GB to 48GB on a 65B parameter model while maintaining performance close to full-precision fine-tuning73% similarUnverifiedWith quantization techniques (such as 4-bit quantization in GGUF format), a consumer-grade GPU (such as the RTX 4090) can run a 70B-parameter model smoothly.72% similarVerifiedTaking a 70B parameter model with FP16 precision and 32 attention head layers as an example, the KV Cache for a single 200K-length request requires approximately 80–120 GB of VRAM, far exceeding the 80 GB VRAM limit of a single A100 GPU.70% similar
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