Best GPU for NLP Research

Natural language processing experiments

Minimum VRAM recommended: 24GB

Recommended GPUs

Top Pick

NVIDIA A100

80GB · Ampere

80GB VRAM handles full fine-tuning of BERT-large, RoBERTa and medium-scale transformer research.

Best price: $1.39/hrAvg price: $1.96/hrAvailable from 6 providers

NVIDIA H100

80GB · Hopper

Fastest iteration for NLP experiments with Transformer Engine optimizations.

Best price: $2.39/hrAvg price: $3.08/hrAvailable from 6 providers

NVIDIA A6000

48GB · Ampere

Good balance for NLP research with 48GB VRAM at a lower cost than A100.

Best price: $0.49/hrAvg price: $0.79/hrAvailable from 3 providers