flops

2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 3, 2023 by Tri Dao · across every show →

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Aug 3, 2023 neutral

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FLOP counts do not necessarily correlate with wall-clock runtime

“Flops or floating point operations don't necessarily correlate with runtime. There are other factors like memory reading and writing, parallelism, and so on.”

Tri Dao Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 5:30 FlashAttention-2: Making Transformers 800% faster AND exact

Aug 18, 2025 bearish

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Sohmers: AI hardware over-indexes on raw FLOPS instead of memory bandwidth

“Everyone else was focusing on the wrong things. They were just trying to have more and more flops when memory bandwidth, memory capacity were the real, real bottlenecks.”

Thomas Sohmers Aug 18, 2025 ▶ 6:26 ⚡️Accelerators @ 3x NVIDIA H200 perf, Made in the USA - Thomas Sohmers + Mitesh Agrawal, Positron AI

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