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Can the NVIDIA Titan X (Pascal) 12GB run WHISPER medium?

FULL

5.1 GB needed of 12 GB usable — headroom for context

12GB · Pascal · model file 3.1GB · medium

~43–77 tok/s

computed roofline: 480.4 GB/s × 0.28–0.50 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 (24GB, used) — upgrade path machine

every model the NVIDIA Titan X (Pascal) 12GB can run — full list

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