Use-case guide · Information extraction

Should you pick A100 40GB PCIe for information extraction?

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

VRAM + model fit

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

Pricing

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

Throughput

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

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