Use-case guide · Embeddings

Should you pick Instinct MI210 for embeddings?

Instinct MI210 has 64 GB VRAM. Whether it's the right fit for embeddings depends on your model size, expected QPS, and budget. Below is what we're seeing in production.

VRAM + model fit

Instinct MI210 fits models up to ~45B parameters in BF16 comfortably with room for KV-cache. For embeddings specifically, you'll want to leave headroom for context length growth.

Pricing

Live pricing across all providers for Instinct MI210 is on the GPU detail page — click through for the sortable list.

Throughput

On embeddings workloads, Instinct MI210 typically delivers the throughput published in its FP16 spec, minus the framework overhead (vLLM ≈ 85% MFU, TGI ≈ 70%).

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