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I'd assume that, in the context of LLM inference, "recent" generally refers to the Ampere generation and later of GPUs, when the demand for on board memory went
by spoaceman7777 1y ago
I'd assume that, in the context of LLM inference, "recent" generally refers to the Ampere generation and later of GPUs, when the demand for on board memory went through the roof (as, the first truly usable LLMs were trained on A100s).
We've been stuck with the same general caps on standard GPU memory since then though. Perhaps limited in part because of the generational upgrades happening in the bandwidth of the memory, rather than the capacity.
- danielmarkbruce 1y agoBandwidth is going up too. "It's not doubling every 18 months and hence it's not moving" isn't a sensible way to view change. A one time effective 30% reduction in model size simply isn't going to be some massive unlocker, in theory or in practice.