GTE Large (1024-dim) at FP16 needs 0.9 GB for its weights and 7.3 GB in total at 8K context with 8 concurrent users. That means it fits on a single V100 SXM2 32GB. Every figure is computed by tokcalc's open-source capacity model.
| GPUs | Total VRAM | VRAM needed | Decode tok/s | Aggregate tok/s | TTFT | Cost / 1M tok | Fits? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1× V100 | 32 GB | 7.3 GB | 664.8 | 7977 | 146.8 ms | $0.0174 | ✓ |
| 2× V100 | 64 GB | 7.3 GB | 1130 | 27123 | 88.6 ms | $0.0102 | ✓ |
| 4× V100 | 128 GB | 7.3 GB | 2260 | 108491 | 59.3 ms | $0.005121 | ✓ |
| 8× V100 | 256 GB | 7.3 GB | 4520 | 433964 | 44.6 ms | $0.002560 | ✓ |
| Context | Concurrent users | KV per request | Fits? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4K | 77 | 412.3 MB | ✓ fits |
| 8K | 38 | 824.6 MB | ✓ fits |
| 33K | 9 | 3.22 GB | ✓ fits |
| 66K | 4 | 6.44 GB | ✓ fits |
| 131K | 2 | 12.88 GB | ✓ fits |
| GPU | GPUs | Aggregate tok/s | Cost / 1M tok |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 3080 10GB | 1× | 6736 | $0.008247 |
| RTX 3090 24GB | 1× | 8296 | $0.008370 |
| RTX 5090 32GB | 1× | 15884 | $0.008744 |
| RTX 4090 24GB | 1× | 8935 | $0.0124 |
| RTX 4080 16GB | 1× | 6355 | $0.0131 |
| AMD MI300X 192GB | 1× | 46977 | $0.0148 |
Yes. GTE Large (1024-dim) at FP16 needs 7.3 GB including the KV cache, and V100 SXM2 32GB has 32 GB — so it fits on a single GPU.
664.8 tokens/sec per stream and 7977 tok/s aggregate with continuous batching at 8 concurrent users. Time to first token is 146.8 ms, and inter-token latency is 1.5 ms.
$0.0174 per 1M output tokens at 1× V100 SXM2 32GB ($0.5000/hr). That is the marginal hardware cost — add idle capacity, ops, and egress for the real figure.
0.9 GB for the weights at FP16, plus 6.4 GB of KV cache for 8 concurrent requests at 8K context — 7.3 GB total. Every extra concurrent user at long context costs more, so leave headroom.
It works. Compare $0.0174 per 1M tokens against the alternatives below — the cheapest option that fits the same workload is 1× RTX 3080 10GB at $0.008247, and the fastest is 1× Cerebras CS-3 (WSE-3) at 177273 tok/s.
Same formulas, your context length, concurrency, and quantisation.