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Can the NVIDIA L40S 48GB run WHISPER medium?

FULL

5.1 GB needed of 48 GB usable — headroom for context

48GB · Ada Lovelace · model file 3.1GB · medium

~130–210 tok/s

computed roofline: 864 GB/s × 0.46–0.76 efficiency window / 3.1GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run WHISPER medium on instead

Tesla M60 (16GB, used) — cheapest catalog machine that runs WHISPER medium fully ($35)

rtx-pro-6000 — the next step up from NVIDIA L40S 48GB

every model the NVIDIA L40S 48GB can run — full list

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