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by moffkalast 708 days ago
The original flash attention (v1?) took like a year to get added to llama.cpp and only provides single digit percent VRAM savings for typical context lengths and practically no speed boost. Still nice to have, but man was this thing overhyped. I doubt v3 will do more than marginally better on the RTX 5000 series.
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On GPU, or on CPU/Metal? For the latter I'm not surprised, but that's because they have a totally different memory/cache hierarchy.
With CUDA offloading, I don't think it runs otherwise at all.