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6x MI50's (96gb) vs 6 P40's (144gb) running MiniMax M2.7 REAP 139B Q3_K_L
6x MI50's (96gb) vs 6 P40's (144gb) running MiniMax M2.7 REAP 139B Q3_K_L
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A user shares benchmark results comparing 6x AMD MI50 (96GB) vs 6x NVIDIA P40 (144GB) running MiniMax M2.7 REAP 139B Q3_K_L model, showing P40 faster in prompt processing but MI50 faster in token generation.
Hey Guys, As promised here are the results from running MiniMax M2.7 REAP 139B Q3_K_L on llama-bench on 6x MI50's. Memory Load: https://preview.redd.it/7tp1nhrl79ch1.png?width=1628&format=png&auto=webp&s=ada4c100e1b589ab530e5b3e7b64153533a8a3de Hardware: Asus X99-E-WS (Modded BIOS to support a large number GPU's ) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2680 v4 @ 2.40GHz 128GB DDR4 RAM SSD 6x MI50's 96GB VRAM (Gen3 x8,x8,x8,x8,x8,x8) Results GPU Setup Model Test Result 6x MI50 / Pro VII 16GB MiniMax M2.7 REAP 139B Q3_K_L pp512 139.27 t/s 6x MI50 / Pro VII 16GB MiniMax M2.7 REAP 139B Q3_K_L tg128 24.87 t/s 6x MI50 / Pro VII 16GB MiniMax M2.7 REAP 139B Q3_K_L pp512+tg128 71.12 t/s 6x MI50 / Pro VII 16GB MiniMax M2.7 REAP 139B Q3_K_L pp4096+tg128 120.95 t/s 6x MI50 / Pro VII 16GB MiniMax M2.7 REAP 139B Q3_K_L pp16384+tg128 117.69 t/s 6x MI50 / Pro VII 16GB MiniMax M2.7 REAP 139B Q3_K_L pp32768+tg128 103.56 t/s 6x MI50 / Pro VII 16GB MiniMax M2.7 REAP 139B Q3_K_L pp65536+tg128 81.99 t/s Optimal Start up params for me were: HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3,4,5 \ "$HOME/llama.cpp-hip/build-hip/bin/llama-server" \ -m "$HOME/.lmstudio/models/mradermacher/m51Lab-MiniMax-M2.7-REAP-139B-A10B-i1-GGUF/m51Lab-MiniMax-M2.7-REAP-139B-A10B.i1-Q3_K_L.gguf" \ --alias "minimax-m2.7-reap-139b-a10b-q3kl" \ -dev ROCm0,ROCm1,ROCm2,ROCm3,ROCm4,ROCm5 \ -ngl 999 \ --fit off \ --no-mmap \ --split-mode layer \ --tensor-split 1,1,1,1,1,1 \ --ctx-size 65536 \ --parallel 1 \ --cache-type-k f16 \ --cache-type-v f16 \ --batch-size 2048 \ --ubatch-size 256 \ --flash-attn on \ --jinja \ --temp 1.0 \ --top-p 0.95 \ --top-k 64 \ --min-p 0.0 \ --presence-penalty 0.0 \ --repeat-penalty 1.0 \ --host 0.0.0.0 \ --port 8080 Here is how 6x MI50's compare to 6x P40's: Test Betty: 6x MI50 / Pro VII 16GB, ROCm Kevin: 6x Tesla P40 24GB, CUDA Winner Difference pp512 139.27 t/s 330.66 t/s P40 P40 ~2.37x faster tg128 24.87 t/s 20.49 t/s MI50 MI50 ~1.21x faster pp512+tg128 71.12 t/s 80.20 t/s P40 P40 ~1.13x faster pp4096+tg128 120.95 t/s 292.09 t/s P40 P40 ~2.41x faster pp16384+tg128 117.69 t/s 374.48 t/s P40 P40 ~3.18x faster pp32768+tg128 103.56 t/s 323.50 t/s P40 P40 ~3.12x faster pp65536+tg128 81.99 t/s 233.93 t/s P40 P40 ~2.85x faster What's interesting is that you could argue that the MI50 is twice the card of a P40: Spec AMD MI50 / Radeon Pro VII 16GB NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB Architecture AMD Vega 20 / GCN 5 NVIDIA Pascal / GP102 Process node 7nm 16nm VRAM per card 16GB HBM2 24GB GDDR5 Total VRAM with 6 cards 96GB 144GB Memory bandwidth per card ~1,024 GB/s ~346 GB/s Memory bus 4096-bit HBM2 384-bit GDDR5 PCIe generation PCIe 4.0 x16 capable PCIe 3.0 x16 FP32 compute ~13 TFLOPS ~12 TFLOPS FP16 compute ~26 TFLOPS Poor / not a real FP16 card FP64 compute ~6.5 TFLOPS low, ~0.37 TFLOPS Tensor cores No No I was surprised that my P40 server kept up with the MI50 box only losing to decode. Goes to show that there's still a TON of untapted potential with these cards.
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