Kimi K3 hardware estimates point to 480 GB VRAM and 8× H100 setups
cedric_chee · x · 2026-07-27
- The image breaks down the hardware requirements for Kimi K3, describing it as the world’s largest open-source model.
- It estimates a minimum 480 GB VRAM requirement under Q2K quantization, with 8× H100 as a recommended configuration.
- The slide explains the large memory footprint by noting that Kimi K3 is a MoE model with 896 experts, even though only 16 are active per token.
- It gives rough memory math for multiple precisions, including 5,600 GB at FP16, 1,540 GB at INT4, and 980 GB at Q2K, before noting expert parallelism can reduce the per-GPU load.
- The image also points to a no-GPU API alternative via the Moonshot platform.
Related event: Moonshot releases Kimi K3 open weights amid license debate(155 posts)→
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