Just wondering if anyone with more knowledge on server hardware could point me in the direction of getting an 8 channel ddr4 server up and running (Estimated bandwidth speed is around 200gb/s) So I would think it would be plenty for inferencing LLM’s.
I would prefer to go used Server hardware due to price, when comparing the memory amount to getting a bunch of p40’s the power consumption is drastically lower. Im just not sure how fast a slightly older server cpu can process inferencing.
If I was looking to run 80-120gb models would 200gb/s and dual 24 core cpu’s get me 3-5 tokens a second?
Don’t forget to include memory costs.
128GB+ of ecc ddr5 is not cheap