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According to a post on X by @spheron, GPU cloud provider Spheron disputes NVIDIA's claim that 2:4 sparsity doubles inference throughput. The post cites about 1.2x on an A100 with TensorRT, 1.21x to 1.66x on an A40, and 1.0x for Qwen3-4B on an L4. Spheron argues that most inference is limited by memory bandwidth rather than compute, so halving the weights does not remove the main bottleneck.
According to a post on X by @spheron, GPU cloud provider Spheron disputes NVIDIA's claim that 2:4 sparsity doubles inference throughput. The post cites about 1.2x on an A100 with TensorRT, 1.21x to 1.66x on an A40, and 1.0x for Qwen3-4B on an L4. Spheron argues that most inference is limited by memory bandwidth rather than compute, so halving the weights does not remove the main bottleneck.
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GPU cloud Spheron pushed back on NVIDIA's claim that 2:4 sparsity doubles inference throughput, citing about 1.2x on an A100 with TensorRT, 1.21x to 1.66x on an A40 and 1.0x for Qwen3-4B on an L4. It argues most inference is limited by memory bandwidth rather than compute, so halving weights doesn't remove the...
Teams sizing GPU fleets may need to benchmark their own workloads before assuming sparsity will double throughput. The figures come from one vendor's social post, so the measured setups matter as much as the headline numbers. Watch for a response from NVIDIA or independent benchmarks that test the same hardware and models.
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