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Surface Laptop Ultra performance drops on battery with Qwen3 coder 30b

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Testing revealed that the Surface Laptop Ultra's performance with the Qwen3 coder 30b model is significantly impacted by its power source. When running on battery, the GPU's power budget drops after about ten seconds, reducing processing speed. This leads to a noticeable decrease in token generation speed for both short coding prompts and longer context tasks compared to when plugged into AC power. The charger is identified as the primary factor influencing performance, with power plans and sliders having a lesser effect. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates how power management on consumer hardware affects LLM inference speed, relevant for optimizing local AI deployments.

RANK_REASON The item details the performance of a specific hardware configuration (Surface Laptop Ultra with RTX Spark) running a particular LLM (Qwen3 coder 30b) under different power conditions, which falls under tooling and hardware performance analysis.

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Surface Laptop Ultra performance drops on battery with Qwen3 coder 30b

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Steef-Jan Wiggers ·

    Unplug the Surface Laptop Ultra and qwen3-coder drops from 94 to 73 tokens a second: RTX Spark on battery

    <p>Plugged in, my Surface Laptop Ultra answers short coding prompts from qwen3-coder:30b at 94 tokens a second. On battery, it manages 73, and the way it gets there is the interesting part: the GPU runs at full clock for about ten seconds and then the power budget drops from 33 W…

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