EfficientDet TPS calculator

Open weights Google Brain 77M parameters July 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 · 479 tok/s

Fastest card

B200

44,003 tok/s · 180 GB

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Context length tokens

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

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818 cards match

Calculating

					Needs	Quantisation	Fit
44,003 tok/s 26,402–70,405 · low confidence	B200 NVIDIA	180 GB	8,000 GB/s	Jan 2024	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
44,003 tok/s 26,402–70,405 · low confidence	B300 NVIDIA	288 GB	8,000 GB/s	Sep 2025	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
35,138 tok/s 21,083–56,220 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI350X AMD	288 GB	8,190 GB/s	Jan 2025	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
35,138 tok/s 21,083–56,220 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI355X AMD	288 GB	8,190 GB/s	Jan 2025	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
28,101 tok/s 16,861–44,962 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300 AMD	128 GB	6,550 GB/s	Jan 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
26,897 tok/s 16,138–43,035 · low confidence	H200 NVL NVIDIA	141 GB	4,890 GB/s	Nov 2024	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
26,897 tok/s 16,138–43,035 · low confidence	H200 SXM 141 GB NVIDIA	141 GB	4,890 GB/s	Nov 2024	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
25,742 tok/s 15,445–41,187 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI325X AMD	256 GB	6,000 GB/s	Oct 2024	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
22,846 tok/s 13,708–36,553 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300A AMD	128 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
22,846 tok/s 13,708–36,553 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI300X AMD	192 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
22,846 tok/s 13,708–36,553 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI308X AMD	192 GB	5,325 GB/s	Dec 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
21,672 tok/s 13,003–34,674 · low confidence	H100 NVL 94 GB NVIDIA	94 GB	3,940 GB/s	Mar 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
18,481 tok/s 11,089–29,570 · low confidence	H100 PCIe 96 GB NVIDIA	96 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
18,481 tok/s 11,089–29,570 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	3,360 GB/s	Oct 2022	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
18,481 tok/s 11,089–29,570 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 94 GB NVIDIA	94 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
18,481 tok/s 11,089–29,570 · low confidence	H100 SXM5 96 GB NVIDIA	96 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
18,481 tok/s 11,089–29,570 · low confidence	H800 SXM5 NVIDIA	80 GB	3,360 GB/s	Mar 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
14,072 tok/s 8,443–22,515 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI250 AMD	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Nov 2021	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
14,072 tok/s 8,443–22,515 · low confidence	Radeon Instinct MI250X AMD	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Nov 2021	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
11,727 tok/s 7,036–18,763 · low confidence	Data Center GPU Max 1550 Intel	128 GB	3,280 GB/s	Jan 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
11,477 tok/s 6,886–18,362 · low confidence	Data Center GPU Max Subsystem Intel	128 GB	3,210 GB/s	Jan 2023	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
11,221 tok/s 6,732–17,953 · low confidence	A100 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Nov 2020	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
11,221 tok/s 6,732–17,953 · low confidence	A100X NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Jun 2021	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
11,221 tok/s 6,732–17,953 · low confidence	A800 SXM4 80 GB NVIDIA	80 GB	2,040 GB/s	Aug 2022	0.8 GB	Q8_0	Comfortable
11,221 tok/s 6,732–17,953 · 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: 27 July 2020
Authors: Mingxing Tan, Ruoming Pang, Quoc V. Le

What it does

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

Domain: Vision
Task: Object detection
Numerical format: FP16

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: 77M
Training data: tokens
Epochs: 600

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

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,SOTA improvement
Citations: 6,849

Sources

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

Reference: EfficientDet: Scalable and Efficient Object Detection
Last updated: 25 May 2026

The extremes

The ten fastest GPUs that run EfficientDet

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 EfficientDet

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

Hardware requirements in practice

Minimum card

Tesla C1080

Memory needed

0.8 GB

Fastest

44,003 tok/s

EfficientDet is small enough at 77M parameters that hardware is rarely the obstacle — 818 of the cards we track can run it, including cards several years old.

The entry point is the Tesla C1080: 4 GB of memory, Q8_0 compression, roughly 479 tokens per second.

Top of the range is the B200, at roughly 44,003 tokens per second thanks to 8,000 GB/s of bandwidth.

What this model is

EfficientDet was published by Google Brain, in United States of America, in July 2020. It comes out of industry.

It works in Vision, and is recorded as doing object detection.

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.

What decides the speed

The median result is around 1,235.6 tokens per second; 818 cards produce text faster than most people read it.

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.

Training and provenance

Its inclusion criterion is highly cited,SOTA improvement.

Step by step

How to choose a GPU for EfficientDet

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

01

Check what it needs before anything else

Every card here has been checked against EfficientDet — around 0.8 GB at Q8_0. Capacity is the gate — a card either holds it or it does not.
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: at long context EfficientDet can slip off a card that handles short questions easily.
03

Choose how far you will compress it

Compression is what makes EfficientDet fit smaller cards, at some cost in accuracy — Q8_0 on the smallest card that fits. A minimum quality removes the ones that go too far.
04

Compare tokens per second, not specifications

Ranking by tokens per second for EfficientDet follows memory bandwidth, not core counts, which is why the B200 tops it at 44,003 tok/s.
05

Read the fit column last

The fit column separates cards that just manage EfficientDet 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 EfficientDet alone — a card is usually bought for more than one model.

Answers

EfficientDet — common questions

What GPU do I need to run EfficientDet?

The smallest card in our catalogue that holds EfficientDet is the Tesla C1080, with 4 GB of memory. It runs the model at Q8_0 using about 0.8 GB, and produces roughly 479 tokens per second. 818 cards in total can run it.

How fast is EfficientDet on a GPU?

It depends on the card. The quickest we calculate is a B200 at about 44,003 tokens per second; the slowest that still runs it manages considerably less. Reading speed is around ten tokens per second, and 818 of the cards that can run EfficientDet clear that.

How much VRAM does EfficientDet need?

About 0.8 GB at Q8_0 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 EfficientDet on a 8 GB GPU?

Yes. A CMP 170HX 8 GB with 8 GB runs it at Q8_0, using about 0.8 GB and generating roughly 8,196 tokens per second — a comfortable fit.

Can I run EfficientDet on a 12 GB GPU?

Yes. A GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 12 GB runs it at Q8_0, using about 0.8 GB and generating roughly 5,019 tokens per second — a comfortable fit.

Can I run EfficientDet on a 16 GB GPU?

Yes. A Tesla V100 SXM2 16 GB with 16 GB runs it at Q8_0, using about 0.8 GB and generating roughly 6,215 tokens per second — a comfortable fit.

Can I run EfficientDet on a 24 GB GPU?

Yes. A GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 with 24 GB runs it at Q8_0, using about 0.8 GB and generating roughly 7,371 tokens per second — a comfortable fit.

Is EfficientDet open source?

Its weights are published, so EfficientDet 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 EfficientDet have?

EfficientDet has 77M parameters. "EfficientDet-D7 achieves stateof-the-art 55.1 AP on COCO test-dev with 77M parameters and 410B FLOPs". 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 EfficientDet?

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

When was EfficientDet released?

EfficientDet was published in July 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.

What is EfficientDet used for?

EfficientDet works in Vision, and is recorded as handling object detection. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

Where can I download EfficientDet?

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

Can I run EfficientDet 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 EfficientDet is rarely worth using. Every figure here assumes the whole model is on the card.

Would two GPUs run EfficientDet faster?

A second card roughly doubles the memory available but not the generation rate. With 818 cards already able to run EfficientDet alone, the case for pairing is weak.

Why does the quantisation differ between cards for EfficientDet?

Each card is shown running the least-compressed copy it can hold, and EfficientDet appears at 1 different compression levels across the cards that fit it. Bigger cards get the more accurate version.

How accurate are these EfficientDet speed estimates?

These are estimates with real error bars. The fastest result here, 26,402–70,405 tok/s on the B200, could reasonably land anywhere in its published range depending on which runtime you use.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 25 May 2026

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