@Michaelzsguo: Found this great tool that may be handy for your local LLM inference optimization: https://kvcache.ai/tools/kv-cache-ca…
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A tweet shares the KV Cache Size Calculator from KVCache.ai, a tool for estimating KV cache memory usage for local LLM inference, highlighting that 1M tokens for DeepSeek V4 Pro uses only 5GB of RAM.
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Found this great tool that may be handy for your local LLM inference optimization:
https://t.co/BqX3mZJEhU
And apparently 1M tokens for DeepSeek V4 Pro only takes 5GB of RAM.
What the heck? https://t.co/9b5Wvm9PA2
KV Cache Size Calculator | KVCache.ai
Source: https://kvcache.ai/tools/kv-cache-calculator/ Model familyModelTokens per sequenceSequencesKV precisionTotal cache size**--**
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