Exact VRAM memory allocation, dynamic KV-cache requirements, and tensor parallelism slicing for Qwen-2.5 7B Consumer-Grade quantized in INT8 SmoothQuant Precision deployed on NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe.
Uncompressed weights alone consume 7.6 GB. In addition, the KV cache scales with context tokens and concurrency batch size, plus ~1.8 GB CUDA driver overhead.
If total weights + KV cache exceeds the 80 GB boundary, Tensor Parallelism (TP) or vLLM PagedAttention multi-GPU sharding across NVLink is required.
Modern AWQ and GPTQ retain >98% perplexity compared to FP16 while halving memory footprint and doubling memory-bandwidth-bound token generation speed.