Use-case guide · Embeddings

Should you pick A30 for embeddings?

A30 has 24 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

A30 fits models up to ~17B 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 A30 is on the GPU detail page — click through for the sortable list.

Throughput

On embeddings workloads, A30 typically delivers the throughput published in its FP16 spec, minus the framework overhead (vLLM ≈ 85% MFU, TGI ≈ 70%).

Try the calculator to size the hardware for your specific model, or see all GPUs on the InferenceScore leaderboard.