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Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request

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Re: Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request

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what did you have in mind when you read "Standard GPUs"?

I guessed you thought about consumer GPUs. We are about standard datacenter GPUs indeed.

What a lot of use on here are salivating for is the ability to run these on prosumer hardware at home. So we tend to jump to the conclusion that "standard" means "consumer-grade" because that's what we want to see. Still, very cool work!

Re: Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request

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I expected a 4090, maybe 2. I did not expect 8xH200 for a 2B model.

Great points, let me clarify: - model size: 2B is just for this preview (it was faster to implement), our article explains how we expect to support large frontier MoE at 1,000 to 5,000 tokens/s - reaching 500 tok/s, or even up to ~1,000 tok/s, on a consumer GPU card is possible with existing inference engines like vLLM. But there is a ceiling. The hard part comes we you try to be faster than that: these frameworks wo…

That doesn't clarify anything lol. It's a bit click baity.

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Could be amazing, but it's hard to judge if it will really work with say a 27 B model or larger. We can already get pretty good speed with a 2B model.

thanks! we explain how it scales to larger models in the last section the OP blog post

Shame you stopped short of actually benchmarking that scale though, eh?

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Oh, it isn't confusing, it is misleading. A standard GPU lets you connect a monitor. A datacenter GPU lets you do headless math.

I updated the article title accordingly

Standard != Datacentre

Re: Real-time LLM Inference on Standard GPUs: 3k tokens/s per request

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This is very cool.

I have been lamenting for a while that the memory-bandwidth tps relationship was pretty much working for small models on consumer cards, but not at all on datacenter hardware.

It's great to see that with proper care on the inference engine implementation the relationship can be restored.

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