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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash runs at interactive speeds on RTX 3060 via Betelgeuse optimizations

A user has successfully optimized the Betelgeuse inference engine to run the large DeepSeek V4.1 Flash model on consumer-grade hardware, specifically an RTX 3060 with 12GB VRAM and 16GB RAM. This was achieved by addressing the prefill bottleneck, which typically plagues out-of-core Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models, by implementing location-invariant cache partitioning, single-pass layer-major prefill, and end-of-pass VRAM consolidation. These optimizations dramatically increased prompt processing speed from a few tokens per second to over 60 tokens per second, making the model usable on the specified hardware. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates significant performance gains for large MoE models on lower-end hardware, potentially broadening accessibility.

RANK_REASON User-level optimization of an existing model on consumer hardware.

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash runs at interactive speeds on RTX 3060 via Betelgeuse optimizations

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/zyxciss ·

    Betelgeuse running DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Q8_XL (1017) at 19 tok/s decode & 62 tok/s prefill on an RTX 3060 12GB + 16GB RAM: How we finally fixed the prefill bottleneck on out-of-core MoEs

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