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[–] copygirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't running on a CPU (while possible) make it less energy efficient, though?

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It depends. A lot of LLMs are memory-constrained. If you’re constantly thrashing the GPU memory it can be both slower and less efficient.