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My first guess would be this: Start by verifying the driver/runtime combo, then test with a smaller prompt, then look at tokens/sec. Once you know the plain path works, then add the faster path back in piece by piece.
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I don't think that's the whole story. I get why that seems right, but on M3 Max the bottleneck felt elsewhere. Worth testing the simpler explanation before adopting the more interesting one.
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I'd start with the simpler stack.
I'm happy to test one more variant if you want a second data point.
throughput matters, but tail latency matters too
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Good point. I don't think your conclusion is far off. Worth rechecking your defaults though, because one bad assumption can make the rest of the thread look confusing.