Cambrian-1-13B TPS calculator

Open weights New York University (NYU) 13B parameters June 2024

Each card below is assessed against this model at the context length and minimum quality you choose. Speed is an estimate for a single request, calculated from the card's memory bandwidth and the size of the model once compressed.

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509 of 818 cards that can run it

Smallest card that fits

Xeon Phi 5110P

8 GB · Q3_K_M · 18.3 tok/s

Fastest card

B200

261 tok/s · 180 GB

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A longer conversation needs more memory, which can push this model off smaller cards.

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					Needs	Quantisation	Fit
261 tok/s 156–417 · low confidence	B200 NVIDIA	180 GB	8,000 GB/s	Jan 2024	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
261 tok/s 156–417 · low confidence	B300 NVIDIA	288 GB	8,000 GB/s	Sep 2025	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
208 tok/s 125–333 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI350X AMD	288 GB	8,190 GB/s	Jan 2025	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
208 tok/s 125–333 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI355X AMD	288 GB	8,190 GB/s	Jan 2025	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
166 tok/s 100–266 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300 AMD	128 GB	6,550 GB/s	Jan 2023	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
159 tok/s 96–255 · low confidence	H200 NVL NVIDIA	141 GB	4,890 GB/s	Nov 2024	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
159 tok/s 96–255 · low confidence	H200 SXM 141 GB NVIDIA	141 GB	4,890 GB/s	Nov 2024	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
152 tok/s 91–244 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI325X AMD	256 GB	6,000 GB/s	Oct 2024	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
135 tok/s 81–217 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300A AMD	128 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
135 tok/s 81–217 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300X AMD	192 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
135 tok/s 81–217 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI308X AMD	192 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
131 tok/s 79–210 · low confidence	CMP 170HX 8 GB NVIDIA	8 GB	1,490 GB/s	Sep 2021	7.1 GB	Q3_K_M	Tight
128 tok/s 77–205 · low confidence	H100 NVL 94 GB NVIDIA	94 GB	3,940 GB/s	Mar 2023	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
117 tok/s 70–188 · low confidence	CMP 170HX 10 GB NVIDIA	10 GB	1,560 GB/s	Sep 2021	8.6 GB	Q4_K_M	Tight
109 tok/s 66–175 · low confidence	H100 PCIe 96 GB NVIDIA	96 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
109 tok/s 66–175 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	3,360 GB/s	Oct 2022	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
109 tok/s 66–175 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 94 GB NVIDIA	94 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
109 tok/s 66–175 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 96 GB NVIDIA	96 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
109 tok/s 66–175 · low confidence	H800 SXM5 NVIDIA	80 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
83.4 tok/s 50–133 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI250 AMD	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Nov 2021	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
83.4 tok/s 50–133 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI250X AMD	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Nov 2021	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
69.5 tok/s 42–111 · low confidence	Data Center GPU Max 1550 Intel	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Jan 2023	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
68.0 tok/s 41–109 · low confidence	Data Center GPU Max Subsystem Intel	128 GB	3,210 GB/s	Jan 2023	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
67.5 tok/s 41–108 · low confidence	RTX A5000-8Q NVIDIA	8 GB	768 GB/s	Apr 2021	7.1 GB	Q3_K_M	Tight
66.5 tok/s 40–106 · low confidence	A100 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Nov 2020	14.6 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable

Speeds are estimates for a single request — one conversation at a time — calculated from memory bandwidth, model size and quantisation. Real throughput varies with the inference runtime and its version. Figures published by hardware vendors measure many simultaneous requests and are much higher.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation: New York University (NYU)
Organisation type: Academia
Country: United States of America
Published: 24 June 2024
Authors: Shengbang Tong, Ellis Brown, Penghao Wu, Sanghyun Woo, Manoj Middepogu, Sai Charitha Akula, Jihan Yang, Shusheng Yang, Adithya Iyer, Xichen Pan, Ziteng Wang, Rob Fergus, Yann LeCun, Saining Xie

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain: Multimodal, Vision, Language
Task: Image captioning, Visual question answering, Character recognition (OCR)
Numerical format: FP32

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Parameters: 13B
Training data: tokens

The training run

What it physically took to train: which chips, how many, for how long, and what that drew from the wall.

Training hardware: Google TPU v4
Chips used: 512
Power draw: 343.6 kW

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights: Open — downloadable
Model access: Open weights (unrestricted)
Training code: Open source
Hugging Face: nyu-visionx

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Record confidence: Confident
Citations: 802

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference: Cambrian-1: A Fully Open, Vision-Centric Exploration of Multimodal LLMs
Last updated: 25 May 2026

The extremes

The ten fastest GPUs for Cambrian-1-13B

Ranked by estimated tokens per second, newest card first where speeds tie. Because generation is bound by memory bandwidth, this ordering follows bandwidth rather than any gaming benchmark.

The smallest GPUs that still run Cambrian-1-13B

The cheapest route in, by memory capacity. A tight fit runs the model but leaves nothing spare for a longer conversation.

What the numbers mean

What you need to run it

Minimum card

Xeon Phi 5110P

Memory needed

7.1 GB

Fastest

261 tok/s

Cambrian-1-13B is small enough at 13B parameters that hardware is rarely the obstacle — 509 of the cards we track can run it, including cards several years old.

The least hardware that works is a Xeon Phi 5110P. Its 8 GB is enough at Q3_K_M compression, giving roughly 18.3 tokens per second.

At the other end, a B200 generates roughly 261 tokens per second on it, on the strength of 8,000 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

What this model is

Cambrian-1-13B was published by New York University (NYU), in United States of America, in June 2024. It comes out of academia.

It works in Multimodal, Vision, Language, and is recorded as doing image captioning, Visual question answering, Character recognition (OCR).

The weights are published, so it can be downloaded and run on your own hardware indefinitely, offline, with no account attached. It is published under the nyu-visionx organisation on Hugging Face.

What decides the speed

Half the cards that hold it manage more than 21.2 tokens per second, and 459 exceed reading speed outright.

Every weight participates in every token here, so bandwidth is the whole story: the ranking below is effectively a ranking of memory throughput.

Its internal architecture is not on file, so memory is approximated from the parameter count and marked accordingly. Expect the real figure to differ, more so at long context.

Step by step

How to choose a GPU for Cambrian-1-13B

The table above has already assessed every card we hold specifications for against this model. Getting to your answer takes six steps.

01

Read the memory figure first

Look at what Cambrian-1-13B actually needs — around 7.1 GB at Q3_K_M. No amount of processing power compensates for a card that cannot hold it.
02

Decide how long your conversations run

Longer conversations cost memory on top of what the weights need. Move the slider to your real working length before trusting any row for Cambrian-1-13B.
03

Choose how far you will compress it

Compression is what makes Cambrian-1-13B fit smaller cards, at some cost in accuracy — Q3_K_M on the smallest card that fits. A minimum quality removes the ones that go too far.
04

Sort by speed

The speed ordering for Cambrian-1-13B is effectively an ordering by memory bandwidth, which is why the B200 tops it at 261 tok/s.
05

Read the fit column last

The fit column separates cards that just manage Cambrian-1-13B from those with room to spare. Buy for the second if the context might grow.
06

See what else that card runs

Every card name links to its own page, which runs the same calculation across the whole model catalogue. Worth a look before buying for Cambrian-1-13B alone — a card is usually bought for more than one model.

Answers

Cambrian-1-13B — common questions

Is Cambrian-1-13B open source?

Its weights are published, so Cambrian-1-13B can be downloaded and run on your own hardware. Note that open weights is not the same as open source in the full sense — it says nothing about the training data, the training code, or the commercial terms attached.

How many parameters does Cambrian-1-13B have?

Cambrian-1-13B has 13B parameters. That figure is the total, and it is what decides how much memory the model needs — roughly half a gigabyte per billion at the compression most people use.

Who created Cambrian-1-13B?

Cambrian-1-13B was published by New York University (NYU), based in United States of America, categorised as academia.

When was Cambrian-1-13B released?

Cambrian-1-13B was published in June 2024. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

What is Cambrian-1-13B used for?

Cambrian-1-13B works in Multimodal, Vision, Language, and is recorded as handling image captioning, Visual question answering, Character recognition (OCR). These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

Where can I download Cambrian-1-13B?

Its weights are published under the nyu-visionx organisation on Hugging Face. We do not host model files — this site calculates what hardware is needed to run them.

Can I run Cambrian-1-13B if it does not fit in my GPU?

Partly. Layers that do not fit sit in system memory and run at a fraction of the speed, so a mostly-offloaded Cambrian-1-13B is rarely worth using — the nearest miss we calculate is short by 3.2 GB. Every figure here assumes the whole model is on the card.

Would two GPUs run Cambrian-1-13B faster?

A second card roughly doubles the memory available but not the generation rate. With 509 cards already able to run Cambrian-1-13B alone, the case for pairing is weak.

Why does the quantisation differ between cards for Cambrian-1-13B?

Because capacity varies, so does how hard Cambrian-1-13B has to be squeezed — 5 distinct levels appear in the table above. Set a minimum quality to compare at one.

How accurate are these Cambrian-1-13B speed estimates?

They are calculated from specifications rather than measured, and each carries a range — 156–417 tok/s on the B200, for instance. The same model and card vary by thirty to fifty per cent depending on the inference software and its version.

What GPU do I need to run Cambrian-1-13B?

The smallest card in our catalogue that holds Cambrian-1-13B is the Xeon Phi 5110P, with 8 GB of memory. It runs the model at Q3_K_M using about 7.1 GB, and produces roughly 18.3 tokens per second. 509 cards in total can run it.

How fast is Cambrian-1-13B on a GPU?

It depends on the card. The quickest we calculate is a B200 at about 261 tokens per second; the slowest that still runs it manages considerably less. Reading speed is around ten tokens per second, and 459 of the cards that can run Cambrian-1-13B clear that.

How much VRAM does Cambrian-1-13B need?

About 7.1 GB at Q3_K_M compression, which is what the smallest card that runs it uses. Less compression needs more: the figures in the memory column above are recalculated for each card, because each one holds the least-compressed version it can.

Can I run Cambrian-1-13B on a 8 GB GPU?

Yes. A CMP 170HX 8 GB with 8 GB runs it at Q3_K_M, using about 7.1 GB and generating roughly 131 tokens per second — a tight fit.

Can I run Cambrian-1-13B on a 12 GB GPU?

Yes. A GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12 GB runs it at Q5_K_M, using about 10.1 GB and generating roughly 53.1 tokens per second — a tight fit.

Can I run Cambrian-1-13B on a 16 GB GPU?

Yes. A Tesla V100 SXM2 16 GB with 16 GB runs it at Q6_K, using about 11.6 GB and generating roughly 53.5 tokens per second — a comfortable fit.

Can I run Cambrian-1-13B on a 24 GB GPU?

Yes. A GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 with 24 GB runs it at Q8_0, using about 14.6 GB and generating roughly 43.7 tokens per second — a comfortable fit.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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