VRAM bottleneck on consumer cards for Llama

[quiethouse]

Appreciate the detail. I don't think your conclusion is far off. The biggest change for me was simplifying the stack instead of adding one more optimization layer.

[circuitwire58]

What exact setup are you running? Are you testing this on M3 Max or something else?

[thetarunner]

Good point. The pattern around consumer GPUs has been pretty similar for me.

My first guess would be this: Start by verifying the driver/runtime combo, then test with a smaller prompt, then look at tokens/sec. Not glamorous advice, but repeatable baselines save a lot of time.

If you post your exact settings, people here can probably narrow it down pretty fast.

[latentpeak22]

I don't think that's the whole story. I wouldn't optimize around that first. On my side the bigger swing came from the runtime and not the model.