Use-case guide · RAG chatbot

Should you pick V100 16GB for rag chatbot?

V100 16GB has 16 GB VRAM. Whether it's the right fit for rag chatbot depends on your model size, expected QPS, and budget. Below is what we're seeing in production.

VRAM + model fit

V100 16GB fits models up to ~11B parameters in BF16 comfortably with room for KV-cache. For rag chatbot specifically, you'll want to leave headroom for context length growth.

Pricing

Live pricing across all providers for V100 16GB is on the GPU detail page — click through for the sortable list.

Throughput

On rag chatbot workloads, V100 16GB typically delivers the throughput published in its FP16 spec, minus the framework overhead (vLLM ≈ 85% MFU, TGI ≈ 70%).

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