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wolvoleotoday at 4:34 PM1 replyview on HN

What? Below 100tk/s is worthless?

I agree that 14t/s is pretty tedious for interactive use, yes. But 50-60tk/s is faster than I can read. 100tk/s is outright fast. Don't forget there is a limit entering content into meatspace.

Also, Gemini may be free but what if I don't want to give all my data to Google? This is precisely why I have a lot of stuff locally.

And will it remain free? How are they going to make back all those trillions of investment?

But yeah I would kinda balk at 14tk/s too that's why I use old datacenter/workstation-class GPUs.


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zaj00ltoday at 4:37 PM

I wouldn't say worthless but once you get used to 100+ tokens / s, it's really a visible slowdown, especially when running multiple agents acting on something more than basic prompt processing.

Still, as you said - for day to day, 50-60 tokens / s is a good baseline.