• quo@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I understand why a graphics card and a lot of VRAM would be important for AI like stable diffusion, why does this spec matter for language models too that don’t use graphics?

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      1 year ago

      They have a lot of fast memory and are great at doing things in parallel. Most AI are just operations on matrixes, which essentially is what a GPU is built for.

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      1 year ago

      GPUs are great for parallel tasks. Computing answers requires a lot of parallel tasks. CPUs are amazing for doing one thing at a time.