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Can the NVIDIA RTX A4500 run WHISPER medium?

FULL

5.1 GB needed of 20 GB usable — headroom for context

20GB · Ampere · model file 3.1GB · medium

~95–160 tok/s

computed roofline: 640 GB/s × 0.46–0.76 efficiency window / 3.1GB (Q4_K_M) — bands, never points.

Run WHISPER medium on instead

Raspberry Pi 5 + AI Kit (Hailo-8L) — cheapest catalog machine that runs WHISPER medium fully ($110)

rtx-a5000 — the next step up from NVIDIA RTX A4500

every model the NVIDIA RTX A4500 can run — full list

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2026-09-17 · ← all models on the NVIDIA RTX A4500 · fit = weights + 4k KV vs usable memory