VRAM Calculator

How much GPU memory a model needs at FP16, FP8 and INT4, and the cheapest live GPU that actually fits it. Pick a popular model or enter your own parameter count.

PrecisionRequired VRAMCheapest live fit$/hr
FP320.5 GBV100 (1×)$0.088/hr
FP8 (quantized)0.1 GBRTX 4070 Super (1×)$0.121/hr
INT4 (quantized)0.1 GBRTX 4070 Super (1×)$0.121/hr

Required VRAM = weight size at that precision × 1.2 (KV-cache/activation overhead). A GPU is only matched if its hardware supports the row's compute dtype (see the GPU recommender's methodology).

How this is calculated

Required VRAM = parameter count × bytes-per-parameter at the chosen precision (FP32 = 4 bytes, BF16/FP16 = 2 bytes, FP8/ INT4-quantized = 1 or 0.5 bytes), × 1.2 to account for KV-cache, activation memory and allocator fragmentation during inference. That 1.2× is a documented rule-of-thumb for single-request serving at a moderate context length, not a simulator; see the full methodology on the models page. A GPU is only matched to a precision row if its hardware actually supports that compute dtype (FP8 and INT4-serving kernels require specific tensor-core generations), same rule used everywhere else on the site.

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