Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B TPS calculator

Open weights Stability AI 7B parameters August 2023

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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589 cards that can run it

818 cards we hold specifications for

Smallest card that fits

Tesla K20c

5 GB · Q3_K_M · 28.9 tok/s

Fastest card

B200

484 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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589 cards match

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					Needs	Quantisation	Fit
484 tok/s 290–774 · low confidence	B200 NVIDIA	180 GB	8,000 GB/s	Jan 2024	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
484 tok/s 290–774 · low confidence	B300 NVIDIA	288 GB	8,000 GB/s	Sep 2025	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
387 tok/s 232–618 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI350X AMD	288 GB	8,190 GB/s	Jan 2025	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
387 tok/s 232–618 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI355X AMD	288 GB	8,190 GB/s	Jan 2025	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
309 tok/s 185–495 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300 AMD	128 GB	6,550 GB/s	Jan 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
296 tok/s 178–473 · low confidence	H200 NVL NVIDIA	141 GB	4,890 GB/s	Nov 2024	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
296 tok/s 178–473 · low confidence	H200 SXM 141 GB NVIDIA	141 GB	4,890 GB/s	Nov 2024	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
283 tok/s 170–453 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI325X AMD	256 GB	6,000 GB/s	Oct 2024	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
251 tok/s 151–402 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300A AMD	128 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
251 tok/s 151–402 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300X AMD	192 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
251 tok/s 151–402 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI308X AMD	192 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
238 tok/s 143–381 · low confidence	H100 NVL 94 GB NVIDIA	94 GB	3,940 GB/s	Mar 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
203 tok/s 122–325 · low confidence	H100 PCIe 96 GB NVIDIA	96 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
203 tok/s 122–325 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	3,360 GB/s	Oct 2022	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
203 tok/s 122–325 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 94 GB NVIDIA	94 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
203 tok/s 122–325 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 96 GB NVIDIA	96 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
203 tok/s 122–325 · low confidence	H800 SXM5 NVIDIA	80 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
155 tok/s 93–248 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI250 AMD	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Nov 2021	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
155 tok/s 93–248 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI250X AMD	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Nov 2021	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
131 tok/s 79–210 · low confidence	CMP 170HX 8 GB NVIDIA	8 GB	1,490 GB/s	Sep 2021	6.6 GB	Q6_K	Tight
129 tok/s 77–206 · low confidence	Data Center GPU Max 1550 Intel	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Jan 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
126 tok/s 76–202 · low confidence	Data Center GPU Max Subsystem Intel	128 GB	3,210 GB/s	Jan 2023	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
123 tok/s 74–197 · low confidence	A100 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Nov 2020	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
123 tok/s 74–197 · low confidence	A100X NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Jun 2021	8.2 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
123 tok/s 74–197 · low confidence	A800 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Aug 2022	8.2 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: Stability AI
Organisation type: Industry
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Published: 10 August 2023
Authors: Meng Lee, Fujiki Nakamura, Makoto Shing, Paul McCann, Takuya Akiba, Naoki Orii

What it does

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

Domain: Language
Task: Language modeling/generation, Translation

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: 7B
Training data: 750,000,000,000 tokens

Training compute

The arithmetic performed to train the model, measured in floating-point operations. It is a measure of what the training run cost, not of how fast the finished model answers you.

Training compute: 3.2 × 10²² FLOP
How it was established: Operation counting

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: Unreleased
Hugging Face: stabilityai

How it is classified

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

Record confidence: Confident

Sources

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

Reference: Japanese StableLM, Marking Entry into International Language Model Market
Last updated: 28 November 2025

The extremes

The ten fastest GPUs that run Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B

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 Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B

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

Tesla K20c

Memory needed

4.1 GB

Fastest

484 tok/s

Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B is small enough at 7B parameters that hardware is rarely the obstacle — 589 of the cards we track can run it, including cards several years old.

The least hardware that works is a Tesla K20c. Its 5 GB is enough at Q3_K_M compression, giving roughly 28.9 tokens per second.

The quickest result comes from a B200 at around 484 tokens per second — its 8,000 GB/s of bandwidth is what buys that.

About this model

Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B was published by Stability AI, in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in August 2023. It comes out of industry.

It works in Language, and is recorded as doing language modeling/generation, Translation.

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 stabilityai organisation on Hugging Face.

How fast it runs, and why

Across every card that can run it, the middle of the range is about 26.1 tokens per second, and 559 of them clear the ten tokens per second that roughly matches reading speed.

Being dense, it reads all of itself per token, which is why the ordering by speed below follows the ordering by memory bandwidth so closely.

Memory here is estimated from size rather than computed from the architecture, which is not recorded for this model — the numbers are indicative rather than exact.

What went into building it

The training run consumed about 3.2 × 10²² FLOP. That figure describes the cost of creating it and has no bearing on how quickly it generates text.

The training set ran to roughly 750,000,000,000 tokens.

Step by step

How to choose a GPU for Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B

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

Every card here has been checked against Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B — around 4.1 GB at Q3_K_M. Capacity is the gate — a card either holds it or it does not.
02

Set the context length you will work at

Longer conversations cost memory on top of what the weights need. Move the slider to your real working length before trusting any row for Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B.
03

Set a quality floor

Compression is what makes Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B 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

Rank by throughput rather than spec sheet

Sort by speed to see how cards rank for Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B. It will not match a gaming ordering — generation is bound by memory bandwidth, which is why the B200 tops it at 484 tok/s.
05

Read the fit column last

Tight means Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B loads and works, with no room to raise the context later. Comfortable means you can. The difference matters more than a few tokens per second.
06

Open the card you have settled on

Every card name links to its own page, which runs the same calculation across the whole model catalogue. Worth a look before buying for Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B alone — a card is usually bought for more than one model.

Answers

Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B — common questions

Can I run Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B if it does not fit in my GPU?

Only by offloading, which is usually a false economy: the part in system memory drags the whole thing down — the nearest miss we calculate is short by 1.3 GB. Our figures for Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B assume it is fully resident.

Would two GPUs run Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B faster?

Two cards buy memory rather than speed. That matters for Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B only if one card cannot hold it — 589 can, so a second adds little.

Why does the quantisation differ between cards for Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B?

A larger card holds a more accurate copy. Across the cards that run Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B, 4 compression levels are used; the floor control above pins it to one.

How accurate are these Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B speed estimates?

Every figure is derived from memory bandwidth and model size, not benchmarked. That is why each is published as a range such as 290–774 tok/s on the B200 rather than a single number.

What GPU do I need to run Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B?

The smallest card in our catalogue that holds Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B is the Tesla K20c, with 5 GB of memory. It runs the model at Q3_K_M using about 4.1 GB, and produces roughly 28.9 tokens per second. 589 cards in total can run it.

How fast is Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B on a GPU?

It depends on the card. The quickest we calculate is a B200 at about 484 tokens per second; the slowest that still runs it manages considerably less. Reading speed is around ten tokens per second, and 559 of the cards that can run Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B clear that.

How much VRAM does Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B need?

About 4.1 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 Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B on a 8 GB GPU?

Yes. A CMP 170HX 8 GB with 8 GB runs it at Q6_K, using about 6.6 GB and generating roughly 131 tokens per second — a tight fit.

Can I run Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B on a 12 GB GPU?

Yes. A GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12 GB runs it at Q8_0, using about 8.2 GB and generating roughly 55.2 tokens per second — a comfortable fit.

Can I run Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B on a 16 GB GPU?

Yes. A Tesla V100 SXM2 16 GB with 16 GB runs it at Q8_0, using about 8.2 GB and generating roughly 68.4 tokens per second — a comfortable fit.

Can I run Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B on a 24 GB GPU?

Yes. A GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 with 24 GB runs it at Q8_0, using about 8.2 GB and generating roughly 81.1 tokens per second — a comfortable fit.

Is Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B open source?

Its weights are published, so Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B 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 Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B have?

Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B has 7B parameters. 7B. 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 Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B?

Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B was published by Stability AI, based in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, categorised as industry.

When was Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B released?

Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B was published in August 2023. 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 Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B used for?

Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B works in Language, and is recorded as handling language modeling/generation, Translation. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.

Where can I download Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B?

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

How much compute was used to train Japanese StableLM Base Alpha 7B?

Around 3.2 × 10²² FLOP. That measures what producing the model cost and says nothing about how quickly it answers once trained — inference speed comes from memory bandwidth, not from the training budget.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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