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Dual Tesla P40 setup achieves 48 tok/s with Qwen 3.8 27B

A user on Reddit shared their experience optimizing a dual Tesla P40 setup for local LLM inference, achieving significantly improved token generation speeds. By switching the KV cache to FP16 and fine-tuning parameters like MTP speculative decoding, they observed speeds up to 48 tokens/s for short contexts, a substantial increase from their previous 15 tokens/s. The benchmark results also showed impressive prefill speeds, with a 63,900-token prefix processed at 258.33 tokens/s. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates potential for significant speed improvements in local LLM inference through hardware and software optimization.

RANK_REASON User-generated guide on optimizing hardware for LLM inference.

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Dual Tesla P40 setup achieves 48 tok/s with Qwen 3.8 27B

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Jumpy-Operation-4615 ·

    48 tg/s 440 prefill on my grandma's cluster (2xP40) (sort of)

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> switching KV cache to f16 may give a boost in speed if using MTP and ngrams. </p> <p>I have a self-built &quot;AI mega-cluster&quot; with 2x P40s on a cheap Chinese motherboard and a Xeon CPU (around $1,100 to build, inclu…