Use-case guide · Code assistant

Should you pick A100 40GB SXM for code assistant?

A100 40GB SXM has 40 GB VRAM. Whether it's the right fit for code assistant depends on your model size, expected QPS, and budget. Below is what we're seeing in production.

VRAM + model fit

A100 40GB SXM fits models up to ~28B parameters in BF16 comfortably with room for KV-cache. For code assistant specifically, you'll want to leave headroom for context length growth.

Pricing

Live pricing across all providers for A100 40GB SXM is on the GPU detail page — click through for the sortable list.

Throughput

On code assistant workloads, A100 40GB SXM typically delivers the throughput published in its FP16 spec, minus the framework overhead (vLLM ≈ 85% MFU, TGI ≈ 70%).

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