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Re:Llama 3.1 Official Launch by AaronFriel on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @10:59AM (#41046669)
If previous quantization results hold up, fp8 will have nearly identical performance while using 405GiB for weights, but the KV cache size will still be significant.

Too bad, too, I don't think my PC will fit 20 4090s (480GiB).

Re:Llama 3.1 Official Launch by knicholes on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @11:21AM (#41046925)
I've got a motherboard that will support 8!
Re:Llama 3.1 Official Launch by Zambyte on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @11:47AM (#41047292)
40,320 4090s?? What witchcraft is this?! :D
Re:Llama 3.1 Official Launch by sebastiennight on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @07:05PM (#41051952)
All the more impressive when you realize that Groq's infrastructure (based on LPUs) was built using only 6!