The Model Starts Negotiating With the Machine

A July 10 NVIDIA technical guide treats model architecture and serving hardware as one design problem. It recommends aligning dimensions to GPU tile sizes, favoring fewer wider operations when model quality permits, planning for low-precision execution, and using regular layer patterns that divide cleanly across pipeline stages. These are vendor-authored guidelines built around NVIDIA systems, not an independent benchmark. Their broader point is still useful: a model's shape fixes many of its eventual latency, throughput, and communication costs long before an inference team begins tuning kernels.