# KV Cache: Compute Your Real VRAM Budget

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## Article Metadata
- Title: KV Cache: Compute Your Real VRAM Budget
- Summary: The KV cache formula term by term, why GQA made long context affordable, and worked numbers from 8k to 900k tokens in FP16 and FP8.
- Published: Sep 12, 2026, 12:03 PM EDT
- Updated: Sep 12, 2026, 12:03 PM EDT
- Category: Research
- Primary topic: Kv Cache Vram
- Authors: Owen Park
- Read time: 11 min
- Language: en_US
- Publication time zone: America/New_York (U.S. Eastern Time)
- Access: Free to read

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