• DavidGarcia@feddit.nl
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    21 days ago

    For the small ones, with GPUs a couple hundred watts when generating. For the large ones, somewhere between 10 to 100 times that.

    With specialty hardware maybe 10x less.

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      21 days ago

      A lot of the smaller LLMs don’t require GPU at all - they run just fine on a normal consumer CPU.

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          21 days ago

          It depends. A lot of LLMs are memory-constrained. If you’re constantly thrashing the GPU memory it can be both slower and less efficient.

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        20 days ago

        yeah but 10x slower, at speeds that just don’t work for many use cases. When you compare energy consumption per token, there isn’t much difference.