Tesla V100 16GB local LLMs, single and dual NVLink benchmarks
Picked up a couple of Tesla V100-SXM2-16GB modules a while back to run local models and drive Claude Code fully offline, figured the actual numbers and the traps might save someone else the pain. They've come right down in price and the 16GB of HBM2 at ~900 GB/s still holds up su
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Technical breakdown
Picked up a couple of Tesla V100-SXM2-16GB modules a while back to run local models and drive Claude Code fully offline, figured the actual numbers and the traps might save someone else the pain. They've come right down in price and the 16GB of HBM2 at ~900 GB/s still holds up surprisingly well for inference, bandwidth is what matters most for token gen and the V100 has heaps of it. Spec refresher
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