What GPU do I need to run sarvamai/sarvam-30b?

32.2B parameters, published in F32. View on Hugging Face

32.2B
Parameters
F32
Native precision
SarvamMoEForCausalLM
Architecture
text-generation
Pipeline

sarvam-30b is published by sarvamai on Hugging Face, with 14,683 downloads and 222 likes to date. It's a SarvamMoEForCausalLM model built for text-generation, published natively in F32.

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)
FP32
119.8 GB
143.7 GB
RTX 8000 (akash)
3
$0.661/hr
FP8 (quantized)
29.9 GB
35.9 GB
L40 (massecompute)
1
$0.772/hr
cheaper alt.
RTX 4070 (simplepod)
3
$0.240/hr
INT4 (quantized)
15.0 GB
18.0 GB
RTX 3090 (simplepod)
1
$0.160/hr
cheaper alt.
RTX 3080 (simplepod)
2
$0.140/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 sarvam-30b at its published (F32) precision: 3× RTX 8000 on akash, at $0.221/hr per GPU ($0.661/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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