Use-case guide · Text classification

Should you pick L40 for text classification?

L40 has 48 GB VRAM. Whether it's the right fit for text classification depends on your model size, expected QPS, and budget. Below is what we're seeing in production.

VRAM + model fit

L40 fits models up to ~34B parameters in BF16 comfortably with room for KV-cache. For text classification specifically, you'll want to leave headroom for context length growth.

Pricing

Live pricing across all providers for L40 is on the GPU detail page — click through for the sortable list.

Throughput

On text classification workloads, L40 typically delivers the throughput published in its FP16 spec, minus the framework overhead (vLLM ≈ 85% MFU, TGI ≈ 70%).

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