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We get 100 tokens a second with batch size 1. Those 2000+ figures are for large batches.

Ah, that's fair, and faster than any of the LMDeploy stats for batch size 1; nice work!

Using an H100 for inference, especially without batching, sounds awfully expensive. Is cost much of a concern for you right now?

I don't think they're saying they're doing batch size of 1, just giving performance expectations of user facing performance

Yeah, and this is basically what I was asking.

100 tokens/s on the user's end, on a host that is batching requests, is very impressive.

I think they _are_ saying batch size 1, given that rushingcreek is OP.

Yes they are saying batch size 1 for the benchmarks, but they aren't doing batch size 1 in prod (obviously).

I don't think that is obvious. If your use case demands lowest latency at any cost, you might run batch size 1. I believe replit's new code model (announced about a month ago) runs at batch 1 in prod, for example, because code completions have to feel really fast to be useful.

With TensorRT-LLM + in-flight batching you can oversubscribe that one batch slot, by beginning to process request N+1 while finishing request N, which can help a lot at scale.

I'm not sure about TensorRT, but in llama.cpp there are seperate kernals optimized for batching and single use inference. It makes a substantial difference.

I suppose one could get decent utilization by prompt processing one user while generating tokens for another.

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