postalrat 6 days ago

I haven't found a good case/risers/etc I really like. Most the miner stuff wasn't made for PCIe 16x.

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manmal 6 days ago

Is that a problem? According to this, the GPUs don’t communicate that much once the weights are loaded: https://github.com/turboderp/exllama/discussions/16#discussi...

> So at FP16 precision that's a grand total of 16 kB you're transmitting over the PCIe bus, once per token. If you multiply by, say, 20 tokens per second, then you're still only using like 0.1% of your PCIe bandwidth.

Intra GPU memory bandwidth is very important, but I‘ve seen lots of people use just a x4 lane and they didn’t complain much.