4.0
@hn_859236
about 1 month ago
In my case with vLLM on dual RTX Pro 6000
gpt-oss-120b: (unknown prefill), ~175 tok/s generation. I don't remember the prefill speed but it certainly was below 10k
Nemotron-3-Super: 14070 tok/s prefill, ~194.5 tok/s generation. (Tested fresh after reload, no caching, I have a screenshot.)
Nemotron-3-Super using NVFP4 and speculative decoding via MTP 5 tokens at a time as mentioned in Nvidia cookbook: https://docs.nvidia.com/nemotron/nightly/usage-cookbook/Nemo
1.5
@hn_34a8f0
about 2 months ago
> Inspired by GPUs, we parallelized this effort across multiple engineers. One engineer tried vLLM, another SGLang, and a third worked on TensorRT-LLM. We were able to quickly get TensorRT-LLM working, which was fortunate as it is usually the most performant inference framework for LLMs.
> TensorRT-LLM
It is usually the hardest to setup correctly and is often out of the date regarding the relevant architectures. It also requires compiling the model on the exact same hardware-drivers-libraries stack as your production environment which is a great pain in the rear end to say the least. Multimodal setups also been a disaster - at least for a while - when it was near-impossible to make it work even for mainstream models - like Multimodal Llamas. The big question is whether it's worth it, since when running the GPT-OSS-120B on H100 using vLLM is flawless in comparison - and the throughput stays at 130-140 t/s for a single H100. (It's also somewhat a clickbait of a title - I was expecting to see 500t/s for a single GPU, when in fact it's just a tensor-parallel setup)
It's also funny that they went for a separate release of TRT-LLM just to make sure that gpt-oss will work correctly, TRT-LLM is a mess
4.0
@hn_83649f
about 2 months ago
We found something surprising about ARC AGI 2: the benchmark aiming to measure human-like fluid intelligence. Just enabling a stateful Python tool boosts performance across models. We got > 4x performance improvement in GPT OSS 120B (high). The effect continues well into frontier territory (GPT 5.2) with double digit gains.
We aren't sure whether these gains happen because code execution is a stronger form of verification compared to pure CoT or because it encourages qualitatively different thinking patterns.
Another interesting finding: interleaved thinking, the model capability behind these gains, seems fragile at the infra/client layer. Soft failures can make capable models look much worse than they actually are.
4.0
@hn_5f3857
about 2 months ago
Even with inflated RAM prices, you can buy a Strix Halo Mini PC with 128GB unified memory right now for less than 2k. It will run gpt-oss-120b (59 GB) at an acceptable 45+ tokens per second: https://github.com/lhl/strix-halo-testing?tab=readme-ov-file...
I also believe that it should eventually be possible to train a model with somewhat persistent mixture of experts, so you only have to load different experts every few tokens. This will enable streaming experts from NVMe SSDs, so you can run state of the art models at interactive speeds with very little VRAM as long as they fit on your disk.