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Comment by adastra22

2 months ago

I’m confused as to why you think a GPU is necessary? It’s just linear algebra.

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oreoftw  2 months ago

most likely he was referring the fact that you need plenty of GPU-fast memory to keep the model, and GPU cards have it.

  • adastra22  2 months ago

    There is nothing magical about GPU memory though. It’s just faster. But people have been doing CPU inference since the first llama code came out.

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