CUDA: use mma FA kernel for gqa > 4 on RTX 4000#15035
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For models such as Qwen 2.5 3b with 8 Q heads per K/V head it seems to be better to use the mma FlashAttention kernel than the vector kernel:
Notably if the GPU is frequency limited this difference is even larger and up to +25%. With a frequency limit it would also be better to use the mma kernel in other cases such as with LLaMA which has 4 Q heads per K/V head. And since datacenter GPUs have lower frequencies than consumer GPUs this implies that choosing kernels solely based on compute capability is suboptimal. It's currently unclear to me how to best retrieve the GPU clocks in a way that considers user-defined limits, I opened a thread in the NVIDIA developer forums and will make a PR once I get a reply.