Mystery: Why do some LLMs produce more coil noise on Mac Studio M3 Ultra?
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by gavmor
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I just gotta say, the coil noise on my open-case 3090 has been a fascinating and joyful complement to my generative experiments.
Alongside `nvtop`, coil noise has given me a visceral sense of the texture for different workloads. Sorry I haven't done a more rigorous analysis, but I'm certain it helps me debug.
by QuadmasterXLII
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Back in the early days of deep learning I did a fair amount of my performance debugging by listening to the coil whine during training, (this was when a GTX 1080 was hot stuff.) Fun to see this come back!
by jsheard
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In video games this tends to be a function of framerate, with higher FPS being more likely to produce coil whine as the GPU power draw oscillates at a higher frequency. I assume there's something analogous in LLM runtimes when the outer loop spins faster or slower.
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