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Private RAG Hardware Sizing: Embeddings, Reranker, Index

Size the retrieval half of a private RAG stack: embedding and reranker GPU memory and compute, vector index RAM per FAISS, Qdrant, pgvector and cuVS CAGRA.

October 28, 2026• 16 min read
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