Use-case guide · Speech-to-text

Should you pick A100 40GB SXM for speech-to-text?

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

VRAM + model fit

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

Pricing

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

Throughput

On speech-to-text workloads, A100 40GB SXM typically delivers the throughput published in its FP16 spec, minus the framework overhead (vLLM ≈ 85% MFU, TGI ≈ 70%).

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