What really happens when you click 'Send' on ChatGPT
LLM inference is fundamentally constrained by GPU memory (VRAM), not raw compute — model weights, KV cache, and runtime buffers all compete for limited VRAM Every request runs in two distinct phases with different hardware characteristics: prefill (compute-bound, processes all prompt tokens in parallel) and decode (memory-bandwidth-bound, generates one token at a time) Batching multiple requests improves GPU utilization, but the KV cache — which stores intermediate attention states — grows dynam
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