Did a bit of testing and thought I'd post the result here.

After a few runs on 7900 XTX, I ended up with decent performance, but the setup only really made sense once I adjusted around small local stacks.

Happy to post more details if anyone wants them.

This is mostly for local work rather than public serving.

Posting this in case it saves someone else a little time.

I'm not trying to build a perfect architecture diagram. I just want a sane starting point around vLLM and 5090.

I'm especially interested in mistakes worth avoiding.

Spent some time on this today and wanted to compare notes.

I've gone back and forth between SGLang and vLLM for Phi. The interesting difference for me has been structured output.

Interested in tradeoffs more than fan loyalty.

I care more about stability than squeezing the last possible tokens/sec out of it.

Did a bit of testing and thought I'd post the result here.

After a few runs on 4090, I ended up with decent performance, but the setup only really made sense once I adjusted around tail latency.

Happy to post more details if anyone wants them.

My use case is pretty ordinary: local chat, some document work, and occasional batch jobs.

Posting this in case it saves someone else a little time.

I'm not trying to build a perfect architecture diagram. I just want a sane starting point around TensorRT-LLM and B200.

Simple and boring is a valid answer.

For context, I'm not chasing leaderboard numbers. I mostly want the system to feel consistent day to day.

Thought I'd post a small recipe because a lot of threads ask similar things.

Maybe useful as a starting point: TensorRT-LLM on 7900 XTX, keeping HBM constraints in mind from the start.

If someone wants the exact settings I can clean them up and post them.

Did a bit of testing and thought I'd post the result here.

Short version: PyTorch behaved well for me, but only after I stopped ignoring speculative decoding.

Happy to post more details if anyone wants them.

This keeps coming up in conversation so I figured I'd start a thread.

The more I work with local setups, the more it seems like router policy decides everything downstream.

Maybe obvious to some of you, but it clicked for me this week.

This keeps coming up in conversation so I figured I'd start a thread.

The more I work with local setups, the more it seems like long context decides everything downstream.

Wondering if this is just where the whole space is heading now.

This keeps coming up in conversation so I figured I'd start a thread.

One thing I keep noticing is that people underestimate reranking until they actually try to run this stuff for more than one afternoon.

Wondering if this is just where the whole space is heading now.