Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by fooker 10 days ago
What are the tasks that do well with 8-10 t/s ?
1 comments

The sort of task you don't expect to end immediately. If extracting data from a bunch of PDFs takes 1 hour or the whole night, that doesn't make much difference to me. It's not fast enough for auto completion and slightly too slow for chat (but bearable IMO).
Running a local llm at 10 t/s overnight to extract data from a few PDFs will burn more in electricity than paying cents for the hosted kimi models.

You can (sometimes) break even if you have a workstation GPU.

Sometimes data privacy is paramount.