Can I run gemma-2-9b-it on a NVIDIA A100 (40GB)?
Yes.Runs
You can run this comfortably. On a NVIDIA A100 (40GB) (40 GB VRAM), gemma-2-9b-it needs about 23 GB (FP16) and should generate at roughly ~53 tok/s. Recommended: Run on your GPU with FP16.
google/gemma-2-9b-itWhy
- At full precision this model needs ~23 GB, which fits your GPU VRAM.
How to run gemma-2-9b-it on a A100 (40GB)
Serve with vLLM (OpenAI-compatible API)
# Fast production serving on http://localhost:8000/v1
vllm serve google/gemma-2-9b-itPython (Transformers)
from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="google/gemma-2-9b-it", device_map="auto")
print(pipe("Hello", max_new_tokens=50))Want it to run comfortably at higher precision? The smallest GPU that runs gemma-2-9b-it well is the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada (48 GB).