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Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti run WHISPER medium?

FULL

5.1 GB needed of 12 GB usable — headroom for context

12GB · Ampere · model file 3.1GB · medium

~140–220 tok/s

computed roofline: 912.4 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-3090 — the next step up from NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

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