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by freeqaz 249 days ago
I think the better comparison, for consumers, is how fast is LPDDR5 compared to the normal DDR5 attached to your CPU?

Or, to be more specific, what is the speed when your GPU is out of RAM and it's reading from main memory over the PCI-E bus?

PCI-E 5.0: 64GB/s @ 16x or 32GB/s @ 8x 2x 48GB (96GB) of DDR5 in an AM5 rig: ~50GB/s

Versus the ~300GB/s+ possible with a card like this, it's a lot faster for large 'dense' models. Yes, even an NVIDIA 3090 is ~900GB/s of bandwidth, but it's only 24GB, so even a card like this Xe3P is likely to 'win' because of the higher memory available.

Even if it's 1/3rd of the speed of an old NVIDIA card, it's still 6x+ the speed of what you can get in a desktop today.

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This doesn’t matter at all, if the resulting tokens/sec is still too slow for interactive use.