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Can the NVIDIA L4 run WHISPER medium?

FULL

5.1 GB needed of 24 GB usable — headroom for context

24GB · Ampere · model file 3.1GB · medium

~53–85 tok/s

computed roofline: 300 GB/s × 0.55–0.88 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 4090 (24GB, used) — upgrade path machine

every model the NVIDIA L4 can run — full list

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