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Tensor vs Pipeline Parallelism for Inference: NVLink vs PCIe

How to split an LLM across GPUs for inference: per-token all-reduce traffic for tensor parallelism, pipeline trade-offs, NVLink vs PCIe worked examples.

October 28, 2026• 15 min read
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