[adastra22]

I’m confused as to why you think a GPU is necessary? It’s just linear algebra.

[oreoftw]

most likely he was referring the fact that you need plenty of GPU-fast memory to keep the model, and GPU cards have it.

[adastra22]

There is nothing magical about GPU memory though. It’s just faster. But people have been doing CPU inference since the first llama code came out.