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The KV cache degrades the per-step matrix multiplication from large matrix times large matrix to vector times matrix, sharply reducing the amount of computation, but all cached K/V must be read in, so arithmetic intensity drops substantially and the performance bottleneck shifts from SM compute units to fixed overheads such as HBM bandwidth and kernel launches.
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