With batch work built to share, 1,000 serving GPUs also do the work of ~240 dedicated GPUs
Buy more GPUs 1,000 GPUs to buy and power
1,000 serving live traffic
+240
new hardware
Inference OS on the same fleet 1,000 GPUs to buy and power
1,000 serving live traffic
+240
batch work, same GPUs
Our extrapolation from the measured rate of 0.24 of a GPU per GPU for batch work built to share, with live decode at most 1.6% slower (resident kernel, Llama-3.1-8B; paper, Appendix A7). Ordinary jobs not written to share get less than half.