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Thought I'd post a small recipe because a lot of threads ask similar things.
Just sharing a setup that ended up working reasonably well: Llama, PyTorch, M3 Max, with a lot of attention on continuous batching.
Maybe useful as a starting point for newer folks.
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Maybe, but I had the opposite result. The reported numbers can look compelling, but in ordinary usage I didn't see the same benefit. Could be a workload difference, but I wouldn't generalize too fast from one setup.
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A couple questions before I guess too hard. Are you testing this on 5090 or something else?
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What worked for me was pretty simple. Before rebuilding anything, I'd test one clean baseline with Phi and compare from there.
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Quote:What worked for me was pretty simple. Before rebuilding anything, I'd test one clean baseline with Phi and compare from there.
My first guess would be this: Start by verifying the driver/runtime combo, then test with a smaller prompt, then look at NVFP4. Once you know the plain path works, then add the faster path back in piece by piece.
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Ran a quick check on my box. My result was mixed: first run looked bad, second run looked normal. I expected the model choice to matter more than it did.