ViT-Base/32 TPS calculator

Open weights Google Brain 86M parameters October 2020

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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818 cards that can run it

818 cards we hold specifications for

Smallest card that fits

Tesla C1080

4 GB · Q8_0 · 429 tok/s

Fastest card

B200

39,398 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
39,398 tok/s 23,639–63,037 · low confidence	B200 NVIDIA	180 GB	8,000 GB/s	Jan 2024	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
39,398 tok/s 23,639–63,037 · low confidence	B300 NVIDIA	288 GB	8,000 GB/s	Sep 2025	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
31,460 tok/s 18,876–50,337 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI350X AMD	288 GB	8,190 GB/s	Jan 2025	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
31,460 tok/s 18,876–50,337 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI355X AMD	288 GB	8,190 GB/s	Jan 2025	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
25,161 tok/s 15,096–40,257 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300 AMD	128 GB	6,550 GB/s	Jan 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
24,082 tok/s 14,449–38,531 · low confidence	H200 NVL NVIDIA	141 GB	4,890 GB/s	Nov 2024	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
24,082 tok/s 14,449–38,531 · low confidence	H200 SXM 141 GB NVIDIA	141 GB	4,890 GB/s	Nov 2024	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
23,048 tok/s 13,829–36,877 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI325X AMD	256 GB	6,000 GB/s	Oct 2024	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
20,455 tok/s 12,273–32,728 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300A AMD	128 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
20,455 tok/s 12,273–32,728 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300X AMD	192 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
20,455 tok/s 12,273–32,728 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI308X AMD	192 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
19,404 tok/s 11,642–31,046 · low confidence	H100 NVL 94 GB NVIDIA	94 GB	3,940 GB/s	Mar 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
16,547 tok/s 9,928–26,476 · low confidence	H100 PCIe 96 GB NVIDIA	96 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
16,547 tok/s 9,928–26,476 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	3,360 GB/s	Oct 2022	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
16,547 tok/s 9,928–26,476 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 94 GB NVIDIA	94 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
16,547 tok/s 9,928–26,476 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 96 GB NVIDIA	96 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
16,547 tok/s 9,928–26,476 · low confidence	H800 SXM5 NVIDIA	80 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
12,600 tok/s 7,560–20,159 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI250 AMD	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Nov 2021	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
12,600 tok/s 7,560–20,159 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI250X AMD	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Nov 2021	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
10,500 tok/s 6,300–16,799 · low confidence	Data Center GPU Max 1550 Intel	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Jan 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
10,276 tok/s 6,165–16,441 · low confidence	Data Center GPU Max Subsystem Intel	128 GB	3,210 GB/s	Jan 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
10,047 tok/s 6,028–16,074 · low confidence	A100 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Nov 2020	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
10,047 tok/s 6,028–16,074 · low confidence	A100X NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Jun 2021	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
10,047 tok/s 6,028–16,074 · low confidence	A800 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Aug 2022	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
10,047 tok/s 6,028–16,074 · low confidence	H100 CNX NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Mar 2023	0.8 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: Google Brain
Organisation type: Industry
Country: United States of America
Published: 22 October 2020
Authors: Alexey Dosovitskiy, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Dirk Weissenborn, Xiaohua Zhai, Thomas Unterthiner, Mostafa Dehghani, Matthias Minderer, Georg Heigold, Sylvain Gelly, Jakob Uszkoreit, Neil Houlsby

What it does

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

Domain: Vision
Task: Image representation

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: 86M
Training data: 303,000,000 tokens
Epochs: 7

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: google

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: Highly cited
Citations: 62,651

Sources

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

Reference: An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
Last updated: 25 May 2026

The extremes

The ten fastest GPUs that run ViT-Base/32

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 ViT-Base/32

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 C1080

Memory needed

0.8 GB

Fastest

39,398 tok/s

ViT-Base/32 reaches a parameter count of 86M. 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: 818.

The least hardware that works is Tesla C1080, with a memory capacity of 4 GB, running it at a compression of Q8_0 and producing around 429 tokens per second.

The fastest we calculate for it is B200, generating roughly 39,398 tokens per second on the strength of a memory bandwidth of 8,000 GB/s.

What this model is

ViT-Base/32 was published by Google Brain, in the country recorded as United States of America, during October 2020. The publishing organisation is categorised as industry.

It works in the domain of Vision, and is recorded as performing the task of image representation.

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

What decides the speed

Across every card that can run it, the middle of the range sits at 1,106.3 tokens per second. Producing text faster than most people read it: 818 of them.

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.

How it was trained

Training consumed a corpus of around 303,000,000 tokens of text.

Its inclusion criterion: highly cited.

Step by step

How to choose a GPU for ViT-Base/32

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

The table lists every card able to hold ViT-Base/32, needing around 0.8 GB at a compression of Q8_0. Capacity is the gate — a card either holds it or it does not.
02

Match the context to your actual use

Set the context to what you will actually use. The cache grows with the conversation, and it is the usual reason a card that seemed fine stops fitting ViT-Base/32.
03

Choose how far you will compress it

The quantisation column varies by card, because a bigger card holds a more accurate copy, reaching a compression of Q8_0 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.
04

Rank by throughput rather than spec sheet

Sort by speed to see how cards rank for ViT-Base/32. It will not match a gaming ordering, because generation is bound by memory bandwidth. The card topping the list is B200, at 39,398 tok/s.
05

Look at the headroom, not just the fit

Tight means it loads and works with no room to raise the context later, in the case of ViT-Base/32. 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.
06

Check the card from the other side

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 ViT-Base/32.

Answers

ViT-Base/32 — common questions

ViT-Base/32— who created it?

It was published by Google Brain, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.

ViT-Base/32— when was it released?

It was published in October 2020. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

ViT-Base/32— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Vision, and is recorded as handling the task of image representation. 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.

ViT-Base/32— where can I download it?

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

ViT-Base/32— can I run it 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 model is rarely worth using. Every figure here assumes the whole model is resident on the card.

ViT-Base/32— would two GPUs run it faster?

Capacity adds across cards; throughput does not. The number of cards already holding it on their own: 818. So a second card is rarely the answer here.

ViT-Base/32— 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: 1. Bigger cards get the more accurate version, and the quality floor above pins the comparison to one level.

ViT-Base/32— 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: 23,639–63,037 tok/s on B200. The same model and card vary by thirty to fifty per cent depending on the inference software and its version.

ViT-Base/32— what GPU do I need to run it?

The smallest card in our catalogue that holds it is Tesla C1080, with a memory capacity of 4 GB. It runs the model at a compression of Q8_0 using about 0.8 GB, and produces roughly 429 tokens per second. The number of cards able to run it in total: 818.

ViT-Base/32— how fast is it on a GPU?

It depends on the card. The quickest we calculate is B200, at about 39,398 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: 818.

ViT-Base/32— how much VRAM does it need?

It needs about 0.8 GB at a compression of Q8_0, 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.

ViT-Base/32— 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 Q8_0, using about 0.8 GB and generating roughly 7,338 tokens per second. The fit is comfortable.

ViT-Base/32— 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 0.8 GB and generating roughly 4,493 tokens per second. The fit is comfortable.

ViT-Base/32— 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 0.8 GB and generating roughly 5,565 tokens per second. The fit is comfortable.

ViT-Base/32— 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 0.8 GB and generating roughly 6,599 tokens per second. The fit is comfortable.

ViT-Base/32— 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.

ViT-Base/32— how many parameters does it have?

It has a parameter count of 86M. Table 1 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.11929.pdf. 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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