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Published video-model weights, licences and hardware notes

Memory floor, and what it has to name

A memory floor is a claim that a card of a given size will finish a described job. It is the figure a reader with one machine actually needs, and it is only testable when the output and the supported formats are named alongside it. As of 2026-09-22.

What makes a floor checkableA floor without an output is unfalsifiable and a floor without a card generation may assume a numeric format the reader's hardware does not support.The number on its ownPlus the outputFrames, and ideally a frame size, so the job is described.Plus the formatfp16 or bf16, because the floor depends on it.Plus the card generationsSo a reader knows whether their own card qualifies.A claim somebody can disprove
Fig. 1 Three things a floor has to carry before anyone can test it.
What a floor implies about the vendor as much as about the model. Recorded 2026-09-22.
Property of the claimWhat it implies
It is testableSomebody will test it
It names an outputThe vendor chose a configuration to stand behind
It names card generationsOlder hardware was considered and excluded
It is lowThe release was engineered for reach

Inclusion rule. Properties of a published floor. A property about the publisher rather than the model is included, because a floor is partly a statement of intent. Order. From the property about testing to the property about design.

1Publishing a floor invites correction

A stated minimum can be tried by anyone with that card, and reports come back. A vendor that publishes one has accepted that, which is why floors are rarer than peaks in this register.

It also means a floor is usually conservative. The vendor picked a configuration it was confident about rather than the most aggressive one it could find.

2Low floors are engineering, not luck

The lowest figure in this register belongs to a release built around packing long frame sequences, and it is stated for a full minute of output. The number is a consequence of the design rather than of the parameter count.

Reading it as a general rule for models of that size fails immediately: another release of nearly identical size publishes no figure at all.

3Which rows here offer one

Four families state a minimum. One of them attaches it to a full minute of output and names the card generations and the numeric formats, which makes it the most completely specified hardware statement in the register.

A floor is also the rarer form because it invites correction. A vendor publishing one has accepted that anyone with that card will test it, which is why the figures that exist tend to be conservative.

A reading note, not an entry: no vendor value appears on this page. Where the register records this term for a particular release, it is on the hardware column and on that family's own page. Nearby terms: Offloading, Numeric precision.