Use-case guide · Vision-language

Should you pick TPU v6e (Trillium) for vision-language?

TPU v6e (Trillium) has 32 GB VRAM. Whether it's the right fit for vision-language depends on your model size, expected QPS, and budget. Below is what we're seeing in production.

VRAM + model fit

TPU v6e (Trillium) fits models up to ~22B parameters in BF16 comfortably with room for KV-cache. For vision-language specifically, you'll want to leave headroom for context length growth.

Pricing

Live pricing across all providers for TPU v6e (Trillium) is on the GPU detail page — click through for the sortable list.

Throughput

On vision-language workloads, TPU v6e (Trillium) typically delivers the throughput published in its FP16 spec, minus the framework overhead (vLLM ≈ 85% MFU, TGI ≈ 70%).

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