Preprint
Aug 2026
More GPUs or a Smaller Cache? Tensor Parallelism versus KV Compression for Memory-Bound LLM Serving
Tensor parallelism is the only lever that improves latency (compression makes per-token latency worse), while compression is the only lever that multiplies capacity per dollar (16.5x, against 1.21x for an eightfold spend on GPUs).
Srikanta Datta Tumkur, Mehar Simhadri, Anshu Bansal et al.
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