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TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB): Specs, VRAM, Throughput & Cost

TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB) has 95 GB of VRAM and 819 GB/s of memory bandwidth. It runs 35 models from the catalog on a single card — up to Mixtral 8x22B (MoE) — and serves Llama 3.3 70B at 135.7 tok/s aggregate. All figures are computed by tokcalc's open-source capacity model.

VRAM
95 GB
Memory bandwidth
819
GB/s
FP16/BF16
459 TF
Price
$4.2
per GPU-hour (typical)
Hardware specifications
VendorGoogle
Categorytpu
VRAM95 GB
Memory bandwidth819 GB/s
FP16/BF16 dense compute459 TFLOPS
NVLink bandwidthnone
Release year2023
Typical cloud price$4.2/hr
NotePod-scale; per-chip specs only
Models that fit on a single TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB)
At each model's recommended quantization, 8K context and 8 concurrent users. Cost is per 1M output tokens.
ModelParamsQuantVRAM neededAggregate tok/sCost / 1M tok
GTE Large (1024-dim)0.44Bfp167.32 GB7259$0.1607
Multilingual E5 Large (1024-dim)0.56Bfp167.56 GB5704$0.2045
BGE-M3 (embed, 1024-dim)0.57Bfp167.58 GB5623$0.2075
SmolLM2 1.7B Instruct1.70Bfp1616.28 GB1879$0.6209
Phi-3 Mini 3.8B3.80Bfp1633.37 GB840.6$1.39
Qwen 3 4B4Bfp1617.66 GB798.5$1.46
Llama 2 7B6.74Bfp1647.84 GB473.9$2.46
Qwen 2.5-VL 7B (VLM)7Bfp1617.76 GB456.3$2.56
Mistral 7B v0.37.24Bfp1623.07 GB441.2$2.64
Qwen2 7B7.62Bfp1619.00 GB419.2$2.78
Qwen 3 8B8Bfp1625.66 GB399.3$2.92
Llama 3 8B8.03Bfp1624.65 GB397.8$2.93
Gemma 2 9B9Bfp1640.55 GB354.9$3.29
Falcon 3 10B Instruct10Bfp1630.74 GB319.4$3.65
Pixtral 12B (VLM)12Bfp1634.74 GB266.2$4.38
OLMo 2 13B13Bfp1636.74 GB245.7$4.75
Phi-4 14B14Bfp1638.74 GB228.1$5.11
Qwen 2.5 14B14Bfp1640.88 GB228.1$5.11
Qwen 3 14B14Bfp1638.74 GB228.1$5.11
GPT-NeoX 20B20Bfp890.87 GB479.1$2.44
GPT-OSS 20B (MoE)20.91Bfp822.55 GB2662$0.4383
Codestral 25.0822Bfp837.03 GB435.6$2.68
Gemma 2 27B27Bfp851.70 GB354.9$3.29
Qwen3.8 27B (VLM)27.78Bfp833.28 GB344.9$3.38
Qwen 3 30B-A3B (MoE)30Bfp836.44 GB3194$0.3653
Qwen 3 32B32Bfp849.18 GB299.4$3.90
Mixtral 8x7B (MoE)46.70Bfp855.29 GB742.8$1.57
Llama 3.3 70B70.60Bfp892.07 GB135.7$8.60
Llama 3 70B70.60Bfp892.07 GB135.7$8.60
Qwen 2.5-VL 72B (VLM)72Bfp893.47 GB133.1$8.77
Qwen 2.5 72B72.70Bfp894.17 GB131.8$8.85
Qwen2 72B72.70Bfp894.17 GB131.8$8.85
Llama 4 Scout 17B-16E (MoE, VLM)109Bawq472.83 GB601.2$1.94
GPT-OSS 120B (MoE)116.83Bawq466.71 GB2004$0.5821
Mixtral 8x22B (MoE)141Bawq492.58 GB262.1$4.45
Llama 3.3 70B across every accelerator
Same model (fp8), same workload, every GPU in the catalog. TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB) ranks #26 of 29 by aggregate throughput.
GPUAggregate tok/sCost / 1M tok$/hr
Cerebras CS-3 (WSE-3)45076——
RTX 4080 16GB6464$0.1031$0.3
RTX A4000 16GB4039$0.1651$0.3
RTX 5090 32GB4039$0.1376$0.5
A100 40GB SXM43493$0.2863$0.9
RTX 4090 24GB2272$0.1956$0.4
V100 SXM2 32GB2028$0.2739$0.5
RTX 3090 24GB2017$0.1377$0.25
H100 SXM5 80GB1888$0.7358$2.5
TPU v6e Trillium (32GB)1846$0.4816$0.8
T4 16GB1836$0.2421$0.2
A10G 24GB1352$0.2958$0.36
Frequently asked questions

What is TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB) used for?

TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB) is a tpu accelerator from Google with 95 GB of VRAM and 819 GB/s of memory bandwidth, typically around $4.2/hr on cloud rental. Pod-scale; per-chip specs only. It is aimed at specialised inference workloads.

Which models fit on a single TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB)?

35 models in the tokcalc catalog fit on one TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB), up to Mixtral 8x22B (MoE) (141B params) at awq4. Below that, throughput and cost per million tokens improve as the model gets smaller.

How fast is Llama 3.3 70B on TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB)?

At fp8 with 8 concurrent users, 1× TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB) serves 135.7 tokens/sec aggregate (11.31 tok/s per stream), with a 5.16 s time to first token. That works out to $8.60 per 1M output tokens.

How much does TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB) cost per hour?

Around $4.2/hr for on-demand cloud rental (a typical 2025–2026 estimate across RunPod, Lambda, Modal, AWS, GCP and similar providers). Actual pricing varies by region, commitment, and spot availability — the Build vs Buy tab in the calculator pulls live quotes from several providers.

How does TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB) compare to other accelerators?

Memory bandwidth drives decode speed and VRAM drives capacity. TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB) has 819 GB/s of bandwidth and 95 GB of VRAM, plus 459 TFLOPS of dense FP16/BF16 compute. The comparison table on this page ranks every accelerator in the catalog on the same reference workload so you can see where it lands.

Size a real deployment on TPU v5p (per-chip, 95GB)

Pick your model, context length, and concurrency — the calculator computes the rest with the same formulas.

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