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2026-10-11
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Your 7B Model Fits on a 4090 β Until You Open a 128K Context Window
A developer's analysis shows that a 7B model's KV cache, not its weights, is what forces long-context inference onto larger GPUs: Llama 3.1 8B consumes roughly 128 KiB per token in FP16, so a 128K conβ¦