g5g vs g6 for LLM Serving: the Same Code, and 3.7x the Throughput
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This article compares two AWS GPU instance families for serving a small language model, using a payload that is byte-identical on both. The older family loses 87% of decode to dtype conversion, and nothing in any log, metric or health check says so. The code is here: https://github.com/xbill9/gemma…
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- 2026-08-31 01:40 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
g5g vs g6 for LLM Serving: the Same Code, and 3.7x the Throughput