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How important is pci-e speed/gen/lanes when doing inference? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by wh33t@alien.top to c/localllama@poweruser.forum

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I'm trying to assess whether or not to try and run a second GPU in my second full length slot. My mobo manual reports the fatest the second slot can go is pci-e 2.0 at x4 lanes. A paltry 2GB/s correct?

Can anyone comment from personal experience?

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[–] NoWarrenty@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It is very important if you care about performance. On inference, a lot of data has to go from one card to another. I was using 1x risers and it sucked. If you have two similar nvidia cards, you can get around by using nvlink bridge.

Otherwise you should aim at pcie 4 8x at least when looking for a Mainboard. I sniped a epyc system from ebay for 1000€ that has 6 pcie 4 16x and it rocks it all with 4 3090.

https://preview.redd.it/u0bvy2kkzw1c1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ecb164bbf59504e590c19403554e24df8f9236c8

[–] Massive_Robot_Cactus@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Was the cpu from ebay too? Any reliability issues? It seems a lot of the cheap ones on ebay are gray market / production candidates.