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I'm completely over these hypotheticals and 'testing grade'.
I know Nvidia VRAM works, not some marketing about 'integrated ram'. Heck look at /r/locallama/ There is a reason its entirely Nvidia.
I'm completely over these hypotheticals and 'testing grade'.
I know Nvidia VRAM works, not some marketing about 'integrated ram'. Heck look at /r/locallama/ There is a reason its entirely Nvidia.
That's simply not true. NVidia may be relatively popular, but people use all sorts of hardware there. Just a random couple of recent self-reported hardware from comments:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qw15gl/comment...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qw0ogw/analysi...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qvwi21/need_he...
- https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qvvf8y/demysti...
Then you sent over links describing such.
In real world use, Nvidia is probably over 90%.
You have a point that at scale everybody except maybe Google is using Nvidia. But r/locallama is not your evidence of that, unless you apply your priors, filter out all the hardware that don't fit your so called "hypotheticals and 'testing grade'" criteria, and engage in circular logic.
PS: In fact locallamma does not even cover your "real world use". Most mentions of Nvidia are people who have older GPUs eg. 3090s lying around, or are looking at the Chinese VRAM mods to allow them run larger models. Nobody is discussing how to run a cluster of H200s there.
>moderate context windows
Really had to modify the problem to make it seem equal? Not that quants are that bad, but the context windows thing is the difference between useful and not useful.
As for useful at that scale?
I use mine for coding a fair bit, and I don’t find it a detractor overall. It enforces proper API discipline, modularity, and hierarchal abstraction. Perhaps the field of application makes that more important though. (Writing firmware and hardware drivers).
It also brings the advantage of focusing exclusively on the problems that are presented in the limited context, and not wandering off on side quests that it makes up.
I find it works well up to about 1KLOC at a time.
I wouldn’t imply they were equal to commercial models, but I would definitely say that local models are very useful tools.
They are also stable, which is not something I can say for SOTA models. You cal learn how to get the best results from a model and the ground doesn’t move underneath you just when you’re on a roll.