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A 7B model stored at 2 bytes per weight is about 14 GB.

A 7B model stored at 2 bytes per weight is about 14 GB. Put it on an H100 with 80 GB of HBM and it fits easily. That…

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A 7B model stored at 2 bytes per weight is about 14 GB. Put it on an H100 with 80 GB of HBM and it fits easily. That tells you almost nothing about how fast inference will be. If one decode step had to stream all 14 GB of weights, and the GPU somehow sustained the H100’s advertised 3.35 TB/s entirely on those reads, the weight sweep alone would take about 4.18 ms. Roughly 239 tokens/s, before KV-cache traffic, activations, synchronization, or imperfect bandwidth use. It is only a sanity-check bound, but it changed how I think about "GPU memory." Capacity is only one number. The other quest

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