The main problem with the Groq LPUs is, they don't have any HBM on them at all. Just a miniscule (230 MiB) [0] amount of ultra-fast SRAM (20x faster than HBM3, just to be clear). Which means you need ~256 LPUs (4 full server racks of compute, each unit on the rack contains 8x LPUs and there are 8x of those units on a single rack) just to serve a single model [1] where as you can get a single H200 (1/256 of the server rack density) and serve these models reasonably well.
It might work well if you have a single model with lots of customers, but as soon as you need more than a single model and a lot of finetunes/high rank LoRAs etc., these won't be usable. Or for any on-prem deployment since the main advantage is consolidating people to use the same model, together.
It might work well if you have a single model with lots of customers, but as soon as you need more than a single model and a lot of finetunes/high rank LoRAs etc., these won't be usable. Or for any on-prem deployment since the main advantage is consolidating people to use the same model, together.
[0]: https://wow.groq.com/groqcard-accelerator/
[1]: https://twitter.com/tomjaguarpaw/status/1759615563586744334