alt Hacker NewsYou're most likely bottlenecked by memory bandwidth for a LLM.
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cdavid • last Sunday at 1:24 PM
Yeah, memory bandwidth is often the limitation for floating point operations.
It’s both. If you’re using any real amount of context, you need compute too.