Qwen 2.5-VL 7B (VLM) at FP16 needs 14.0 GB for its weights and 17.8 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 | 17.8 GB | 41.79 | 501.4 | 1.89 s | $0.2770 | ✓ |
| 2× V100 | 64 GB | 17.8 GB | 71.04 | 1705 | 961.6 ms | $0.1629 | ✓ |
| 4× V100 | 128 GB | 17.8 GB | 142.1 | 6819 | 495.8 ms | $0.0815 | ✓ |
| 8× V100 | 256 GB | 17.8 GB | 284.1 | 27278 | 262.9 ms | $0.0407 | ✓ |
| Context | Concurrent users | KV per request | Fits? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4K | 76 | 240.5 MB | ✓ fits |
| 8K | 38 | 481.0 MB | ✓ fits |
| 33K | 9 | 1.88 GB | ✓ fits |
| 66K | 4 | 3.76 GB | ✓ fits |
| 131K | 2 | 7.52 GB | ✓ fits |
| GPU | GPUs | Aggregate tok/s | Cost / 1M tok |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 3090 24GB | 1× | 521.5 | $0.1332 |
| RTX 5090 32GB | 1× | 998.4 | $0.1391 |
| RTX 4090 24GB | 1× | 561.6 | $0.1978 |
| AMD MI300X 192GB | 1× | 2953 | $0.2352 |
| A100 40GB SXM4 | 1× | 863.6 | $0.2895 |
| AMD MI325X 288GB | 1× | 3343 | $0.2908 |
Yes. Qwen 2.5-VL 7B (VLM) at FP16 needs 17.8 GB including the KV cache, and V100 SXM2 32GB has 32 GB — so it fits on a single GPU.
41.79 tokens/sec per stream and 501.4 tok/s aggregate with continuous batching at 8 concurrent users. Time to first token is 1.89 s, and inter-token latency is 23.9 ms.
$0.2770 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.
14.0 GB for the weights at FP16, plus 3.8 GB of KV cache for 8 concurrent requests at 8K context — 17.8 GB total. Every extra concurrent user at long context costs more, so leave headroom.
It works. Compare $0.2770 per 1M tokens against the alternatives below — the cheapest option that fits the same workload is 2× RTX 3080 10GB at $0.0772, and the fastest is 1× Cerebras CS-3 (WSE-3) at 11143 tok/s.
Same formulas, your context length, concurrency, and quantisation.