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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wouldn't running on a CPU (while possible) make it less energy efficient, though?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month 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.