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Does PCIe matter much for inference?

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Speaking of -sm tensor. I have 2x5060ti and i get some 40-50tps form 3.8 27B q6. I used HWinfo to see how saturated the PCIes are during inference are and as expected both the PCIe 5x16 slot and PCIe 4x4 were fully saturated. I cant help but feel like my 2nd gpu slot is a bottleneck (4x4), im consi…

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