What GPU do I need to run llava-hf/llava-1.5-13b-hf?

13.4B parameters, published in F16. View on Hugging Face

13.4B
Parameters
F16
Native precision
LlavaForConditionalGeneration
Architecture
image-text-to-text
Pipeline

llava-1.5-13b-hf is published by llava-hf on Hugging Face, with 151,909 downloads and 35 likes to date. It's a LlavaForConditionalGeneration model built for image-text-to-text, published natively in F16.

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.

Precision
Weight size
Required VRAM
Cheapest live fit
GPUs needed
Est. $/hr (full fit)
FP16
24.9 GB
29.8 GB
V100 (simplepod)
1
$0.170/hr
cheaper alt.
P4 (akash)
4
$0.126/hr
FP8 (quantized)
12.4 GB
14.9 GB
RTX 5060 Ti (simplepod)
1
$0.100/hr
INT4 (quantized)
6.2 GB
7.5 GB
RTX 3070 (simplepod)
1
$0.050/hr

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 caveat: requires a quantized checkpoint actually published for this model, check its Hugging Face page before relying on this row.

Cheapest way to run llava-1.5-13b-hf at its published (F16) precision: 1× V100 on simplepod, at $0.170/hr per GPU ($0.170/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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