← Back to context

Comment by xaskasdf

11 hours ago

yeah, actually I wanted to see if this was possible at all. I managed to get around 3000 tokens/s on a ps2 with classic transformers, since the emotion engine is capable of 32 bit addresses, but it has like 32gb of ram. So I ran into the question of why was that fast and I couldn't get that speed even with small models, and the deal is that the instructions went right of the memory to the gpu and that's the main difference that does when a regular computer does inference: it has to request the instructions to the cpu every time. As I mentioned too, on professional cards you can avoid these problems naturally, since they got instructions precisely for this, but sadly I don't have 30k bucks to spare on a gpu :(

> I don't have 30k bucks to spare on a gpu :(

Do you have $2/hr to rent an RTX 6000 96GB or $5/hr for B200 180GB on the cloud?

  • I'd rather not give money to scalper barons if I can avoid it. Fab capacity is going to that for rental rather than hardware for humans.

3000 tokens per sec on 32 mb Ram?

  • fast != practical

    You can get lots of tokens per second on the CPU if the entire network fits in L1 cache. Unfortunately the sub 64 kiB model segment isn't looking so hot.

    But actually ... 3000? Did GP misplace one or two zeros there?