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phamiltontoday at 12:19 AM1 replyview on HN

Generation is basically just memory bandwidth math.

Each token has to read all the active weights. I think that's around 40B parameters active. At a 4-bit quant that's 20GB. With 100GB/s (replace with whatever your bandwidth is) and you get 5 tokens per second.


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SlavikCAtoday at 4:07 AM

And with MTP (or other speculation techniques) you can ~double that.