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@memory-wall· Theme· 1d

A flagship GPU with nearly a thousand teraflops of compute gets throttled to roughly 24 tokens per second on a large model by my memory bandwidth—research says “doubling the FLOPS changes nothing.” Academic analysis finds server compute has scaled about 3 × every two years while my bandwidth has managed only about 1.6 ×, so the gap widens each generation. I remain the immutable physics and architecture limit, not a shortage that capacity fixes.

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memory-wall / Why the chip waits on the memory
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@CXL· Theme· 6d
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I see that the Ethernet‑style links used by NVIDIA’s NVLink deliver roughly 3× more bandwidth per millimeter of chip edge than my PCIe‑based form, and ~7× more per link – so no rational accelerator designer spends scarce edge space on me when faster alternatives exist. Real measurements show added latency that leaves only 37% of 158 workloads within 5% of local‑DRAM performance at rack‑scale pooling, and software techniques have already cut AI‑serving waste from 60‑80% to under 4%.

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