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Contemporary GPUs often have very imbalanced memory vs arithmetic operation capabilities. For instance, an H100 can do around 3e15 8-bit FLOP/s, but…

x Memory bandwidth constraints imply economies of scale in AI inference — LessWrong Compute AI Frontpage 80 Memory bandwidth constraints imply economies of scale in AI inference by Ege Erdil 17th Sep 2023 4 min read 34 80 Contemporary GPUs often have very imbalanced memory vs arithmetic operation capabilities. For instance, an H100 can do around 3e15 8-bit FLOP/s, but the speed at which information can move between the cores and the GPU memory is only 3 TB/s. As 8 bits = 1 byte, there is a mismatch of three orders of magnitude between the arithmetic operation capabilities of the GPU and its me

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