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AMD EPYC CPU or 1x RTX 4090? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by M000lie@alien.top to c/localllama@poweruser.forum

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I plan to infer 33B models at full precision, 70B is second priority but a nice touch. Would I be better off getting an AMD EPYC server cpu like this or a RTX 4090? With the EPYC, i am able to get 384GB DDR4 RAM for ~400USD on ebay, the 4090 only has 24GB. Moreover, both the 4090 and EPYC setup + ram cost about the same. which would be a better buy?

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

If I had the money, I'd go with the cpu.

Also, I'm not sure a 4090 could run 33B modes at full precision. Wouldn't that require like 70GB of vRAM?