alt Hacker NewsMost crypto mining on GPUs would use 100% of memory bandwidth, but only a fraction of the compute available. This is a consequence of ASIC resistance of their mining algorithms -- custom silicon can only offer a modest benefit over GPUs if the hard part is memory bandwidth.
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NuclearPM • yesterday at 10:34 PM
Why is that true? Can’t you just make more stuff parallel and shrink the ASIC chips accordingly?
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So does llm inference. You're lucky if you hit 40% of the advertised flops.