Use-case guide · Translation

Should you pick GB200 NVL72 (per GPU) for translation?

GB200 NVL72 (per GPU) has 192 GB VRAM. Whether it's the right fit for translation depends on your model size, expected QPS, and budget. Below is what we're seeing in production.

VRAM + model fit

GB200 NVL72 (per GPU) fits models up to ~134B parameters in BF16 comfortably with room for KV-cache. For translation specifically, you'll want to leave headroom for context length growth.

Pricing

Live pricing across all providers for GB200 NVL72 (per GPU) is on the GPU detail page — click through for the sortable list.

Throughput

On translation workloads, GB200 NVL72 (per GPU) typically delivers the throughput published in its FP16 spec, minus the framework overhead (vLLM ≈ 85% MFU, TGI ≈ 70%).

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