Intel is totally missing the boat honestly. Their mobile i9 with the built-in GPU can share DDR5 with the video card.
You can put 96 gigs of RAM in a small form factor and load in a monster model. It’s not super fast, But it works, and it’s a lot faster than not offloading layers off the CPU.
They should be selling nuk sized PCs with built-in graphics and 128 gigs of the fastest RAM they can put on the boards.
yeah, it’s definitely not good enough for user-facing work, but if I’m working on development for something like translations, being able to see the 70b output to compare it to other models, it’s super useful before I send it off to something that costs more money to run.
9/10 times, the bigger model isn’t significantly better for what I’m trying to do, but it’s really nice to confirm that.
Intel is totally missing the boat honestly. Their mobile i9 with the built-in GPU can share DDR5 with the video card.
You can put 96 gigs of RAM in a small form factor and load in a monster model. It’s not super fast, But it works, and it’s a lot faster than not offloading layers off the CPU.
They should be selling nuk sized PCs with built-in graphics and 128 gigs of the fastest RAM they can put on the boards.
IMO its not really “enough” until the bus is 256 bit. Thats when 32B-72B class models start to look even theoretically runnable at decent speeds.
he was getting 1.4 tokens on a 70B model. Not setting the world on fire, but enough to load and script against 70b
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyKEQjUzfAk
Also that is a very low context test. A longer context will bog it down, even setting aside the prompt processing time.
…On the other hand, you could probably squeeze a bit more running openvino instead of llama.cpp, so that is still respectable.
yeah, it’s definitely not good enough for user-facing work, but if I’m working on development for something like translations, being able to see the 70b output to compare it to other models, it’s super useful before I send it off to something that costs more money to run.
9/10 times, the bigger model isn’t significantly better for what I’m trying to do, but it’s really nice to confirm that.