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Serving Vision-Language Models: Image Tokens and GPU Memory

How image resolution sets visual token counts, KV cache, encoder cache and prefill load when serving Qwen2.5-VL or LLaVA on vLLM, with worked sizing math.

October 28, 2026• 17 min read
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