Comment by jacquesm
6 hours ago
V100S is a very good card for some workloads. And they were cheap as well.
I have 240G VRAM total which is a good reason why that rig cost as much as it does, and if I were to build it at today's prices it would be even more expensive.
I got mine just a few weeks ago for about $750 each. I am a decent programmer and have Opus optimizing the inference engine. I know enough to keep it on track, but GPU programming is something I have literally never done, before, but now I know enough about Volta and how to optimize it to be dangerous.
Kind of ironic, but it's the only way. I just really like this as an option. For a household LLM I have the IQ4_K_XL quant and plenty of capacity for everything you could want in a household LLM and it is trustworthy enough to not rm -rf /, etc.
And yeah that is a really nice amount! You can run and compose a lot of interesting models, vision capabilities. IDK. Plus this level of model is far more interactive in the sense that it can implement a well scoped ticket or unit of work but its not going to magically just figure some things out without guidance or a spec :)
You got lucky :)
I tried getting some 170's when I first heard about that unlock but they were already unobtanium by then. That would have been a nice way to add a lot of VRAM.
GLM 5.3 runs pretty comfortably on this rig, even with large context.