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Tuning vLLM on a Modded 48GB RTX 4090: From 18 to 133 Tokens per Second
Three days of benchmarking vLLM on a modded 48GB RTX 4090: the quantisation trap that costs Ada owners 40% of their speed, the free 1.9x from speculative decoding, the KV compression that never served once, and what cutting 120 watts costs you. Every number measured, every failure kept.
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Giving Claude a Local Sidekick: a vLLM Journey Update
I want Claude to have a powerful local sidekick through houtini-lm. I'm not there yet, but this month I got noticeably closer - a vLLM rebuild, a benching spree on the 48GB 4090, and a face-off that deleted two models in an evening.
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