Use-case guide · Embeddings
Should you pick A4000 for embeddings?
A4000 has 16 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
A4000 fits models up to ~11B 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 A4000 is on the GPU detail page — click through for the sortable list.
Throughput
On embeddings workloads, A4000 typically delivers the throughput published in its FP16 spec, minus the framework overhead (vLLM ≈ 85% MFU, TGI ≈ 70%).
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