XGLM-7.5B TPS calculator

Open weights Meta AI,Facebook AI Research 7.5B parameters December 2021

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.

Calculated for this model

589 cards that can run it

818 cards we hold specifications for

Smallest card that fits

Tesla K20c

5 GB · Q3_K_M · 26.9 tok/s

Fastest card

B200

452 tok/s · 180 GB

Which GPUs can run XGLM-7.5B?

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589 cards match

Calculating
Needs Quantisation Fit
452 tok/s

271–723 · low confidence

B200 NVIDIA 180 GB 8,000 GB/s Jan 2024 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
452 tok/s

271–723 · low confidence

B300 NVIDIA 288 GB 8,000 GB/s Sep 2025 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
361 tok/s

216–577 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI350X AMD 288 GB 8,190 GB/s Jan 2025 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
361 tok/s

216–577 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI355X AMD 288 GB 8,190 GB/s Jan 2025 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
289 tok/s

173–462 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI300 AMD 128 GB 6,550 GB/s Jan 2023 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
276 tok/s

166–442 · low confidence

H200 NVL NVIDIA 141 GB 4,890 GB/s Nov 2024 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
276 tok/s

166–442 · low confidence

H200 SXM 141 GB NVIDIA 141 GB 4,890 GB/s Nov 2024 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
264 tok/s

159–423 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI325X AMD 256 GB 6,000 GB/s Oct 2024 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
235 tok/s

141–375 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI300A AMD 128 GB 5,325 GB/s Dec 2023 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
235 tok/s

141–375 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI300X AMD 192 GB 5,325 GB/s Dec 2023 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
235 tok/s

141–375 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI308X AMD 192 GB 5,325 GB/s Dec 2023 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
222 tok/s

134–356 · low confidence

H100 NVL 94 GB NVIDIA 94 GB 3,940 GB/s Mar 2023 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
190 tok/s

114–304 · low confidence

H100 PCIe 96 GB NVIDIA 96 GB 3,360 GB/s Mar 2023 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
190 tok/s

114–304 · low confidence

H100 SXM5 80 GB NVIDIA 80 GB 3,360 GB/s Oct 2022 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
190 tok/s

114–304 · low confidence

H100 SXM5 94 GB NVIDIA 94 GB 3,360 GB/s Mar 2023 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
190 tok/s

114–304 · low confidence

H100 SXM5 96 GB NVIDIA 96 GB 3,360 GB/s Mar 2023 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
190 tok/s

114–304 · low confidence

H800 SXM5 NVIDIA 80 GB 3,360 GB/s Mar 2023 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
144 tok/s

87–231 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI250 AMD 128 GB 3,280 GB/s Nov 2021 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
144 tok/s

87–231 · low confidence

Radeon Instinct MI250X AMD 128 GB 3,280 GB/s Nov 2021 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
122 tok/s

73–196 · low confidence

CMP 170HX 8 GB NVIDIA 8 GB 1,490 GB/s Sep 2021 7.0 GB Q6_K Tight
120 tok/s

72–193 · low confidence

Data Center GPU Max 1550 Intel 128 GB 3,280 GB/s Jan 2023 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
118 tok/s

71–189 · low confidence

Data Center GPU Max Subsystem Intel 128 GB 3,210 GB/s Jan 2023 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
115 tok/s

69–184 · low confidence

A100 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA 80 GB 2,040 GB/s Nov 2020 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
115 tok/s

69–184 · low confidence

A100X NVIDIA 80 GB 2,040 GB/s Jun 2021 8.7 GB Q8_0 Comfortable
115 tok/s

69–184 · low confidence

A800 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA 80 GB 2,040 GB/s Aug 2022 8.7 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
Meta AI,Facebook AI Research
Organisation type
Industry,Industry
Country
United States of America, France
Published
20 December 2021
Authors
Xi Victoria Lin, Todor Mihaylov, Mikel Artetxe, Tianlu Wang, Shuohui Chen, Daniel Simig, Myle Ott, Naman Goyal, Shruti Bhosale, Jingfei Du, Ramakanth Pasunuru, Sam Shleifer, Punit Singh Koura, Vishrav Chaudhary, Brian O'Horo, Jeff Wang, Luke Zettlemoyer, Zornitsa Kozareva, Mona Diab, Veselin Stoyanov, Xian Li

What it does

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

Domain
Language
Task
Translation, Question answering, Language modeling/generation
Approach
Self-supervised learning

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
7.5B

"Our largest model with 7.5 billion parameters sets new state of the art"

Training data
500,000,000,000 tokens

Training Data. Our models are trained on a static multilingual corpus extracted from CommonCrawl, with English text comprising 32.6% of the total number of tokens corresponding to 163B tokens. 163B / 0.326 = 500B total Note that this dataset is sampled from the much larger CC100-XL, outlined in Appendix F and here: https://huggingface.co/facebook/xglm-7.5B#training-data-statistics The huggingface link sums to 1.64T tokens, while the Data Card in the appendix claims 1.9T tokens.

Epochs
1
Batch size
4,000,000

"All models are trained with data parallel and an effective batch size of 4M 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
2.3 × 10²² FLOP

"The XGLM 7.5B model was trained on 256 A100 GPUs for about 3 weeks, at a speed of 311.6k words per second" 256 * 312 teraFLOP/s * 21 * 24 * 3600 * 0.3 utilization assumption ~= 4.3e22 also, it was trained for 500B tokens. Using Compute = 6ND, we have 6 * 500B * 7.5B = 2.25e22 311k tokens per second * 7.5B params * 6 is 1.35e16 FLOP/s. divide that by 312 teraFLOP/s, which is A100 peak compute, gets 43, suggesting low utilization (17%) of the 256-GPU cluster, or somewhat higher if there's more…

How it was established
Operation counting,Hardware

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
NVIDIA A100
Chips used
256
Chip-hours
129,024
Wall-clock time
504 hours (21 days)

appendix A : "The XGLM 7.5B model was trained on 256 A100 GPUs for about 3 weeks, at a speed of 311.6k words per second"

Power draw
206.3 kW
Compute cost
$104,152

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 (non-commercial)
Training code
Unreleased

MIT license https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/tree/main/examples/xglm https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq/blob/main/examples/xglm/model_card.md#primary-intended-use

How it is classified

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

Why it is tracked
SOTA improvement

"Our largest model (XGLM7.5B) sets a new state of the art performance for few-shot learning in more than 20 representative languages (including medium- and low-resource languages) for the tasks of commonsense reasoning, natural language inference and machine translation."

Record confidence
Confident
Citations
381

Sources

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

Reference
Few-shot Learning with Multilingual Language Models
Last updated
25 May 2026

The extremes

What the numbers mean

What it takes to run this model

Minimum card

Tesla K20c

Memory needed

4.4 GB

Fastest

452 tok/s

XGLM-7.5B reaches a parameter count of 7.5B. That is small enough that hardware is rarely the obstacle, including on cards several years old. The number of cards we track that can run it: 589.

The smallest card that holds it is Tesla K20c, with a memory capacity of 5 GB, running it at a compression of Q3_K_M and producing around 26.9 tokens per second.

Top of the range is B200, generating roughly 452 tokens per second on the strength of a memory bandwidth of 8,000 GB/s.

Background

XGLM-7.5B was published by Meta AI,Facebook AI Research, in the country recorded as United States of America, during December 2021. The publishing organisation is categorised as industry,Industry.

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as performing the task of translation, Question answering, Language modeling/generation.

Published weights mean the model runs on your machine rather than someone else's, which is what makes the hardware question below answerable at all.

Reading the throughput figures

Half the cards that hold it manage more than 24.4 tokens per second. Producing text faster than most people read it: 557 of them.

It is a dense model, so every parameter is read for every token produced. That makes speed track memory bandwidth almost exactly — a card with twice the bandwidth generates roughly twice as fast.

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.

Training and provenance

Producing it required arithmetic totalling around 2.3 × 10²² FLOP, on hardware recorded as NVIDIA A100. That figure measures what producing the model cost, and has no bearing on how fast it answers.

It was trained on a corpus of about 500,000,000,000 tokens of text.

It is tracked in the underlying dataset for one reason in particular: sOTA improvement.

Step by step

How to choose a GPU for XGLM-7.5B

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

  1. 01

    Read the memory figure first

    The table lists every card able to hold XGLM-7.5B, needing around 4.4 GB at a compression of Q3_K_M. That figure, not the headline performance of a card, is what decides whether it runs.

  2. 02

    Decide how long your conversations run

    The conversation occupies memory too, and grows as it goes. Set the slider to the length you expect, because at long context a card that handles short questions easily can be dropped by XGLM-7.5B.

  3. 03

    Choose how far you will compress it

    Compression is what makes a model fit smaller cards, at some cost in accuracy, reaching a compression of Q3_K_M on the smallest card that fits. Setting a minimum quality drops the cards that only manage it by squeezing further than you would want, and holds the comparison at one level.

  4. 04

    Rank by throughput rather than spec sheet

    Ranking by tokens per second follows memory bandwidth rather than core counts, for XGLM-7.5B. It will not match a gaming ordering, because generation is bound by memory bandwidth. The card topping the list is B200, at 452 tok/s.

  5. 05

    Read the fit column last

    A tight fit runs, but leaves nothing spare for a longer conversation, in the case of XGLM-7.5B. Comfortable means you can grow the context later. That difference matters more than a few tokens per second, so buy for comfortable if you expect to.

  6. 06

    See what else that card runs

    Following a card through to its own page shows every other model it can hold, which is the question that follows once you have settled on XGLM-7.5B.

Answers

XGLM-7.5B — common questions

01

XGLM-7.5B— who created it?

It was published by Meta AI,Facebook AI Research, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry,Industry.

02

XGLM-7.5B— when was it released?

It was published in December 2021. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

03

XGLM-7.5B— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as handling the task of translation, Question answering, Language modeling/generation. 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.

04

XGLM-7.5B— where can I download it?

The weights are published, though we do not hold a repository link for it. This site calculates hardware requirements rather than hosting model files.

05

XGLM-7.5B— how much compute was used to train it?

Training consumed around 2.3 × 10²² FLOP, on hardware recorded as NVIDIA A100. 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.

06

XGLM-7.5B— can I run it if it does not fit in my GPU?

It can be split between the card and system memory, but it generates painfully slowly that way. The nearest miss we calculate falls short by 1.6 GB. Every figure here assumes the whole model is resident on the card.

07

XGLM-7.5B— would two GPUs run it faster?

A second card roughly doubles the memory available but not the generation rate. The number already able to run it alone: 589. So a second card is rarely the answer here.

08

XGLM-7.5B— why does the quantisation differ between cards?

A larger card holds a more accurate copy. The number of compression levels used across the cards that run it: 4. Bigger cards get the more accurate version, and the quality floor above pins the comparison to one level.

09

XGLM-7.5B— how accurate are these speed estimates?

These are estimates with real error bars, and any of them could reasonably land anywhere in its published range depending on which runtime you use. The fastest result here: 271–723 tok/s on B200. The same model and card vary by thirty to fifty per cent depending on the inference software and its version.

10

XGLM-7.5B— what GPU do I need to run it?

The smallest card in our catalogue that holds it is Tesla K20c, with a memory capacity of 5 GB. It runs the model at a compression of Q3_K_M using about 4.4 GB, and produces roughly 26.9 tokens per second. The number of cards able to run it in total: 589.

11

XGLM-7.5B— how fast is it on a GPU?

It depends on the card. The quickest we calculate is B200, at about 452 tokens per second; the slowest that still runs it manages considerably less. Reading speed is around ten tokens per second, and the number of cards clearing that: 557.

12

XGLM-7.5B— how much VRAM does it need?

It needs about 4.4 GB at a compression of Q3_K_M, 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.

13

XGLM-7.5B— can I run it on a GPU holding 8 GB?

Yes. The card CMP 170HX 8 GB, holding 8 GB, runs it at a compression of Q6_K, using about 7.0 GB and generating roughly 122 tokens per second. The fit is tight.

14

XGLM-7.5B— can I run it on a GPU holding 12 GB?

Yes. The card GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, holding 12 GB, runs it at a compression of Q8_0, using about 8.7 GB and generating roughly 51.5 tokens per second. The fit is comfortable.

15

XGLM-7.5B— can I run it on a GPU holding 16 GB?

Yes. The card Tesla V100 SXM2 16 GB, holding 16 GB, runs it at a compression of Q8_0, using about 8.7 GB and generating roughly 63.8 tokens per second. The fit is comfortable.

16

XGLM-7.5B— can I run it on a GPU holding 24 GB?

Yes. The card GeForce RTX 5090 D V2, holding 24 GB, runs it at a compression of Q8_0, using about 8.7 GB and generating roughly 75.7 tokens per second. The fit is comfortable.

17

XGLM-7.5B— is it open source?

Its weights are published, so it 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.

18

XGLM-7.5B— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 7.5B. "Our largest model with 7.5 billion parameters sets new state of the art". 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.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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