Model Capacity on 16GB VRAM | Generated by AI

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Now I have the full picture. Let me summarize what’s on this pod:

Hardware: RunPod RTX 2000 Ada — 16 GB VRAM

Model capacity with SGLang

Precision Max params Example models VRAM used
FP16/BF16 7-8B LLaMA-3-8B, Mistral-7B, Qwen2.5-7B ~16GB (tight on long context)
FP8/INT8 13-16B Llama-2-13B, DeepSeek-V2-Lite-16B, Qwen2.5-14B ~8-9GB + room for KV cache
INT4 (AWQ/GPTQ) 30-34B Qwen2.5-32B, Yi-34B, CodeQwen-32B ~8GB → lots of headroom
INT4 72B 72B (barely) Qwen2.5-72B-AWQ ~14GB → only ~2GB for KV cache = very short context

Existing model on disk

Your SEC-EDGAR-GPT (124M) is already in HuggingFace format at /workspace/model/hf-model/ — it’s a 628MB safetensors model. This is tiny for SGLang (would use < 1 GB VRAM), so you have plenty of room.

The question

What model do you want to serve? Options:

  1. Your existing SEC-EDGAR-GPT 124M — trivial, lots of headroom
  2. A new model — the GPU can handle up to 7-8B FP16 or 30B-34B INT4. Which one?

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