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wtallistoday at 12:22 AM1 replyview on HN

To be fair, nobody has upgradable memory in any system that has enough memory bandwidth and compute power to run LLMs with decent performance. It might be interesting to compare against some decade-old x86 server or workstation stuffed full of LRDIMMs to reach 1.5–2TB of RAM, but the bandwidth would be only slightly faster than a desktop today with high-end DDR5: nowhere close to GPU bandwidth. So performance would still suck.

Designing for extreme expandability comes with pretty steep tradeoffs.


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LTL_FTCtoday at 12:35 AM

Take a look at AMD’s 12-channel memory servers. The newer Epycs are up to 16-channels now, 1.6TB/s. Pretty great for inference.

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