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		cavisne 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Llama 4 herd The H100 theoretical flops number is just marketing, as it relies on sparsity that LLMs don’t use

az226 8 months ago [–]

And the practical flops always end up lower. As an example a V100 has 125 according to spec, but the ideal case is more like 100 and non-ideal like 60.

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