Fastest GPU For Fine-Tuning

Training throughput in tokens per second: LoRA on a fixed batch, the number that decides whether a fine-tune is an evening or a week.

Qwen2.5 1.5B LoRA

Weights: Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B

NVIDIA B30022351.1
NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM316034.9
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition15753.9
NVIDIA B20015322
NVIDIA H20014931.7
NVIDIA L40S12120.1
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM48252.8
NVIDIA A100 40GB SXM46349.7
NVIDIA A10G4214.4
NVIDIA L43720.9
NVIDIA T41434.4

Measured in train tok/s. Longer is faster.

#GPUtrain tok/s
1NVIDIA B30022351.1
2NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM316034.9
3NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition15753.9
4NVIDIA B20015322
5NVIDIA H20014931.7
6NVIDIA L40S12120.1
7NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM48252.8
8NVIDIA A100 40GB SXM46349.7
9NVIDIA A10G4214.4
10NVIDIA L43720.9
11NVIDIA T41434.4

SmolLM2 1.7B LoRA

Weights: HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-1.7B

NVIDIA B30026114.3
NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM318910.3
NVIDIA B20018064.7
NVIDIA H20017650.4
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition16255.4
NVIDIA L40S12052.1
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM49750.8
NVIDIA A100 40GB SXM46938.8
NVIDIA A10G3668.3
NVIDIA L43240.2
NVIDIA T41561.9

Measured in train tok/s. Longer is faster.

#GPUtrain tok/s
1NVIDIA B30026114.3
2NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM318910.3
3NVIDIA B20018064.7
4NVIDIA H20017650.4
5NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition16255.4
6NVIDIA L40S12052.1
7NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM49750.8
8NVIDIA A100 40GB SXM46938.8
9NVIDIA A10G3668.3
10NVIDIA L43240.2
11NVIDIA T41561.9

TinyLlama 1.1B LoRA

Weights: TinyLlama/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0

NVIDIA B30026938.2
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition18556.4
NVIDIA B20017993.5
NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM317522
NVIDIA L40S16408.1
NVIDIA H20016222.4
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM49553.3
NVIDIA A100 40GB SXM47471
NVIDIA A10G5499.6
NVIDIA L44756
NVIDIA T41520.1

Measured in train tok/s. Longer is faster.

#GPUtrain tok/s
1NVIDIA B30026938.2
2NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition18556.4
3NVIDIA B20017993.5
4NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM317522
5NVIDIA L40S16408.1
6NVIDIA H20016222.4
7NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM49553.3
8NVIDIA A100 40GB SXM47471
9NVIDIA A10G5499.6
10NVIDIA L44756
11NVIDIA T41520.1

Qwen2.5 7B LoRA

Weights: Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B

NVIDIA B30014323.1
NVIDIA B20013722
NVIDIA H2008855.4
NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM38514.3
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition6041.8
NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM43900.6
NVIDIA L40S3736
NVIDIA A100 40GB SXM43670.8
NVIDIA A10G1239
NVIDIA L41063.9

Measured in train tok/s. Longer is faster.

#GPUtrain tok/s
1NVIDIA B30014323.1
2NVIDIA B20013722
3NVIDIA H2008855.4
4NVIDIA H100 80GB HBM38514.3
5NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition6041.8
6NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM43900.6
7NVIDIA L40S3736
8NVIDIA A100 40GB SXM43670.8
9NVIDIA A10G1239
10NVIDIA L41063.9

Every number is a first-party run on our own bench. Cards missing from a board have not been measured on that model yet, or cannot fit it.