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Roofline

Two ceilings. Intensity picks which.

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GPUDrag the probe, or click an op. Left of the ridge = memory-bound = a fraction of peak.

H100 ridge 295 FLOPs/byte. Prefill sits right. Decode of one token sits at I≈1 — HBM. Same weights.