Running large LLMs on pre-Ampere NVIDIA hardware — Tesla V100 (sm_70), RTX 2080 Ti (sm_75), CMP 170HX. Measured benchmarks, vLLM forks, and the hardware side: NVLink on SXM2 carrier boards, driver traps, cooling, used-kit acceptance.
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Aug 19, 2026