Comment by mmastrac
7 hours ago
That's a rough place to land on a spark. It seems unlikely to be memory bandwidth at this model size, but maybe just lack of tuned kernels? The chip is missing some CUDA features but with tuning you should be able to hit way more than that even without a drafter.
I was wondering if those ternary bits get expanded into full floats internally in the kernels - you’re probably right about lack of tuned kernels. I’m not sure you could just tune your way out of that easily though. Any suggestions on trying particular solutions?