ST4TS

Historical measurements from July 8–August 12, 2026, on hardware we owned and operated. No row on this page is newer than 2026-08-12. This is not a live fleet or availability page. Click a column header to sort.

These are single-stream decode numbers. They are not quality, and they are not a pilot. A row does not change without an independent cross-check against the CSV. 29 of 161 data rows have no explicit n_counted — treat those blanks as provenance gaps. Words/s ≈ tok/s × 0.75 (English prose estimate; code and structured output tokenize differently). Corrections stay visible. Raw file: st4ts_data.csv.

// the matrix — the under-50B class, three cards, decode tok/s

Three hardware classes on every matrix row: the RTX PRO 6000 workstation card — the speed ceiling; the Strix Halo 128 GB mini-PC — quiet, with one shared memory pool; the R9700 — an ordinary $1,299 MSRP card. Full specs are in the bench section below. Two rows that make the comparison honest:

Model	Quant	RTX PRO 6000	Strix Halo	R9700	The point
gpt-oss-120b	MXFP4 — the identical file on both machines	225.9	54.2	—	Same file, 4.2× the throughput (225.9 / 54.2)
IBM Granite 4.1 30B	Q4_K_M	69.1	11.6	31.2	One dense model, three boxes

Flag legend — “Built on” and the ※ ¶ ⚠ ⁂ ◊ ᶜ marks

The under-50B class — models an ordinary card can hold. One model per row, same-family GGUF on all three hardware classes, pure-generation decode. “Built on” is the flag-accuracy column: a model’s country tells you who published it, not whose weights it started from. Holo is French and built on a Chinese base; Selene is British and built on an American one. “own” means the publisher pretrained it; “undisclosed” means we could not receipt a base model — a GGUF architecture tag names the code family that runs a model, not whose weights it started from, so we never publish an arch tag as lineage. Active-param counts written with a “~” are inferred from bandwidth arithmetic, not vendor-published (receipted in the CSV). ※ = the one model where the $1,299 MSRP card beat the workstation card — flagged for re-measurement, published as measured. ¶ = arch refusal on that box’s build, published rather than hidden: the model was attempted there and the engine refused to load its architecture (build named in the CSV). ⚑ = measured on a transient llama.cpp build newer than our pinned comparability build — several new architectures refuse to load on the pinned build at all, so the choice was a flagged number or no number (build hashes in the CSV; compare ⚑ cells to each other, not to unflagged ones). ⁂ = the same weights under two names: Ornith-1.0-35B (US) and Agents-A1-35B (CN) ship GGUF files 128 bytes apart with identical headers — 733 tensors, 256 experts — and bench within 3.4% everywhere, as identical files must. Two publishers, one model; we caught it because the numbers were implausibly identical. ◊ = ships a malformed chat template — benched with template parsing off; it cannot do tool-calling as shipped. ᶜ = community GGUF quant (quantizer in the CSV) where the vendor publishes none — Muse-Glimmer-30B is the sharpest case: no first-party GGUF exists for it at all, so its rows run a community ~4.5 bpw k-quant rather than the field-standard Q4_K_M, which makes its speeds approximate against the Q4_K_M ladder, not like-for-like. Four further models — an Indian 12B, a Korean 32B, and two US models — were benched but are held off this page pending license review: their licenses carry non-commercial, non-compete or read-before-publish clauses we read before publishing, not after. Bare dashes fill in public as test windows reach them; a dash carrying ¶ was attempted and refused. The 70B+ class gets its own table below.

Why these three: what’s feasible at home. One is the speed ceiling, one is a quiet whole-box with a huge memory pool, one is an ordinary $1,299 MSRP card. Read a row across and the trade-off is the answer.

Model	Origin	Params	Active	Type	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	Strix Halo 128GB	R9700 32GB	Built on	Quant
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking	US	1.2B	1.2B	dense	979.8⚑	—	455.7	own	Q4_K_M
LFM2.5-8B-A1B	US	8.5B	1B	MoE	637.3⚑	162.4	303.7	own	Q4_K_M
LFM2.5-2.6B	US	2.7B	2.7B	dense	482.3⚑	111.7	231.0	own	Q4_K_M
LFM2-24B-A2B	US	24B	2B	MoE	380.5	119.2	220.7	own	Q4_K_M
Sarvam 30B	IN	30B	~3B	MoE	364.6	83.7	198.4	own	Q4_K_M
NVIDIA Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B	US	32.9B	3B	MoE hybrid (mamba)	298.4⚑	59.2⚑	—	own	Q4_K_Mᶜ
Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B	US	31.6B	3.5B	MoE hybrid (mamba)	286.4	65.9	137.4	own	Q4_K_M
Agents-A1-4B	CN	4.2B	4.2B	dense	285.1⚑	—	131.0	undisclosed	Q4_K_M
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B	CN	30.5B	3.3B	MoE	273.3	91.6	182.0	own	Q4_K_M
Cohere North Mini Code 1.0	CA	30B	3B	MoE	270.6⚑	—¶	134.0	undisclosed	UD-Q4_K_M
Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B	US	30B	3B	MoE hybrid (mamba)	268.5	62.3	131.9	own	Q4_K_M
Agents-A1-35B-A3B ⁂	CN	34.7B	3B	MoE	258.6⚑	72.4	—	Qwen3.5-35B (CN)	Q4_K_M
KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev	CN	34.7B	3B	MoE	253.8⚑	—	—	undisclosed	Q4_K_Mᶜ
Ornith-1.0-35B ⁂	US	34.7B	3B	MoE	250.2⚑	71.3	—	Qwen3.5-35B (CN)	Q4_K_M
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B	CN	48B	3B	MoE linear-attn	224.1	70.4	131.6	own	Q4_K_M
H Company Holo 3.1 35B-A3B	FR	35B	3B	MoE	221.3	72.9	127.3	Qwen3.6-35B (CN)	Q4_K_M
Nanbeige-4.2-3B	CN	4.2B	4.2B	dense	213.0⚑	—	108.5⚑	own	Q4_K_Mᶜ
Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B	CN	35B	3B	MoE	206.4	61.2	100.2	own	UD-Q4_K_M / Q4_K_M (R9700, 2026-07)
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	CN	35B	3B	MoE hybrid (SSM)	204.0	59.9	107.0	own	UD-Q4_K_M
GLM-4.7-Flash	CN	—	—	MoE	196.4	70.2	122.0	own	Q4_K_M
Ornith-1.0-9B	US	9B	9B	dense	193.4⚑	—	86.2	Qwen3.5-9B (CN)	Q4_K_M
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	US	26B	4B	MoE	190.0	52.5	100.7	own	UD-Q4_K_M
Mamba-Codestral-7B	FR	7B	7B	pure mamba	184.2	37.3⚑	85.5	own	Q4_0
Atla Selene-1-Mini 8B	UK	8B	8B	dense	162.3	27.0	69.9	Llama-3.1-8B (US)	Q8_0
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite	CN	16B	2.4B	MoE	156.4	107.8	206.4※	own	Q4_K_M
Phi-4 14B	US	14B	14B	dense	133.2	23.2	62.0	own	Q4_K_M
StarCoder2-15B-Instruct	US	15B	15B	dense	115.6	20.6	56.1	own	Q4_K_M
IBM Granite 4.1 30B	US	30B	30B	dense	69.1	11.6	31.2	own	Q4_K_M
Muse-Glimmer-30B	US	30B	30B	dense	70.2⚑	12.5⚑	32.7⚑	own	kquant ~4.5bpwᶜ
Gemma 4 31B IT	US	31B	31B	dense	58.9	10.4	27.3	own	Q4_K_M
Seed-OSS 36B	CN	36B	36B	dense	57.4	10.1	26.8	own	Q4_K_M
Falcon-H1 34B	AE	34B	34B	hybrid (mamba)	51.8	9.9	24.5	own	Q4_K_M
Nemotron-Super-49B v1.5	US	49B	49B	dense	40.5⚑	—	—	Llama-3.3-70B (US)	Q4_K_M
Nemotron-Super-49B v1	US	49B	49B	dense	41.0⚑	—	—	Llama-3.3-70B (US)	Q4_K_M
gpt-oss-20b	US	21B	3.6B	MoE	—	—	168.4	own	MXFP4
Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2	US	9B	9B	hybrid (mamba)	—	—	73.0	own	Q4_K_Mᶜ
IBM Granite-4.0-H-Small	US	32B	9B	MoE hybrid (mamba)	—	—	72.8	own	Q4_K_M
Apriel-1.5-15B-Thinker	US	15B	15B	dense	—	—	62.3◊	own	Q4_K_Mᶜ
Phi-4-Reasoning	US	14B	14B	dense	—	—	61.3	own	Q4_K_Mᶜ
Reka-Flash-3.1	US	21B	21B	dense	—	—	41.7	own	Q4_K_Mᶜ
Magistral-Small	FR	24B	24B	dense	—	—	40.6	own	Q4_K_M
Devstral-Small-2507	FR	24B	24B	dense	—	—	40.6	own	Q4_K_M
Mistral-Small-3.2-24B	FR	24B	24B	dense	—	—	39.5	own	Q4_K_M
Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B	SG	27B	27B	dense	—	—	31.1	Qwen (CN)	Q4_K_M
Qwen3-32B	CN	32.8B	32.8B	dense	—	—	29.0	own	Q4_K_M
Olmo-3-32B-Think	US	32B	32B	dense	—	—	28.8	own	Q4_K_Mᶜ

2026-08-12: LFM2.5-8B-A1B leads the Strix Halo column at 162.4 tok/s. It does not lead the other two columns. Full note is in the CSV.

Full 2026-08-12 matrix note

2026-08-12: a 5 GB file took the top of the mini-PC column. LFM2.5-8B-A1B — 8.5B parameters, ~1B active — posts 637⚑ / 162 / 304 tok/s across all three cards, and it takes the Strix Halo column outright at 162.4, about a 36% jump in that box’s sustained record (the previous holder, LFM2-24B-A2B, sat at 119.2). It does not sweep the matrix — its own 1.2B sibling leads the other two columns, at 979.8⚑ on the workstation card and 455.7 on the $1,299 MSRP card, with no Strix Halo leg yet. At the other end, the same night’s head-to-head: Nemotron-Super-49B v1 vs v1.5 is a dead heat (41.0 vs 40.5, identical VRAM to the MiB) — the .5 is a quality release, and a throughput bench cannot see quality. Same lesson from the qwen35moe cohort: Ornith and Agents-A1 (⁂ — one file under two names) plus KAT-Coder, a third publisher on the same architecture, all land within 3.4% of each other on the card where all three ran — choosing between them is a license and quality question, not a speed question. Same-family GGUF quants only, so the cards are the variable — vLLM/NVFP4 configs live in the detail table below. The Granite row: one dense 30B, three cards, 69 / 12 / 31 tok/s. At 100B+ the pattern holds harder: active-param MoEs span 84–226 tok/s on the Blackwell card — 5.1B-active gpt-oss-120b at the ceiling, 17B-active Llama-4-Scout at the floor, the 105–122B middle clustered at 117–139 — where 111–123B dense runs 17–20, and dense-72B collapses to ~4 on unified memory. The gpt-oss row is the identical file on both machines and shows a 4.2× throughput gap. No per-watt winner is claimed because that same-file pair was not power-sampled on both machines. Wave-3 pattern: Strix Halo’s 30B class is a three-tier ladder — plain-attention A3B MoE at 61–92 tok/s, hybrids around 60–73, dense pinned at the ~10 tok/s bandwidth wall. And the two 80B “twins” (Coder-Next vs Next-thinking, same architecture, different finetune) benched within 0.1 tok/s of each other (174.4 vs 174.3) on Blackwell — architecture sets the row, not the finetune.

// the big memory pools — 70B+ where 96 GB addressable meets 128 GB unified

The 70–123B class needs more memory than an ordinary card carries, so this is a memory-pool comparison: 96 GB of addressable VRAM (the workstation card) vs 128 GB of unified memory (the mini-PC, where CPU and GPU share one pool and a model can spill past what a discrete card could hold). Same GGUF discipline, same decode measure. In these rows, active-param MoEs run 5–10× the dense speed. The 96 GB card can also hold several 30B models at once: one bakeoff held five separate models on it, each on its own port. Co-residency economics remains a separate comparison.

Model	Origin	Params	Active	Type	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	Strix Halo 128GB	Quant
gpt-oss-120b	US	117B	5.1B	MoE (iSWA)	225.9	54.2	MXFP4 (same file)
Qwen3-Coder-Next (0129)	CN	80B	3B	MoE hybrid (linear)	174.4	59.0	Q4_K_M
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B (thinking)	CN	80B	3B	MoE hybrid (linear)	174.3	56.9	Q4_K_M
Mistral Small 4 119B (2603)	FR	119B	—	MoE	138.9	26.0	Q4-class
Hunyuan-A13B-80B	CN	80B	13B	MoE	138.3	26.7	Q4-class
Sarvam 105B	IN	105B	—	MoE	131.7	—	Q4-class
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B	CN	122B	10B	MoE	117.8	—	Q4-class
Llama-4-Scout	US	109B	17B	MoE	84.0	—	Q4-class
KAT-Dev-72B	CN	72B	72B	dense	27.9	4.4	Q4-class
GLM-4.5-Air	CN	—	—	MoE	—	23.2	Q4-class
Cohere Command A 111B	CA	111B	111B	dense	19.8	—	Q4-class
Devstral 2 123B	FR	123B	123B	dense	17.8	—	Q4-class
Mistral Large 2407	FR	123B	123B	dense	17.3	—	Q4-class
Llama-3.3-70B	US	70B	70B	dense	—	5.1	Q4-class
Hermes 70B	US	70B	70B	dense	—	5.1	Q4-class
Athene-V2-72B	US	72B	72B	dense	—	4.4	Q4-class
Cohere Command A Reasoning 111B	CA	111B	111B	dense (iSWA)	—	3.3	Q4-class

Dashes are queued legs, not refusals — every model here loads on at least one box. Multi-model co-residency (several engines sharing one card, the as-deployed reality) is a queued comparison of its own — the Blackwell “short” rows in the detail table were measured exactly that way.

// the spill test — when the model doesn’t fit the card

These models are 44–59 GiB; the R9700 has 32 GB. llama.cpp does not refuse — it loads anyway, spilling the overflow into host RAM, and serves degraded. This table answers a different question than every other number on this page — not “what does this card do?” but “what happens when you exceed it?” — which is why these rows live here and never beside protocol rows.

Model	Type	Weights on disk	Spilled to host RAM	decode tok/s
Qwen3-Coder-Next 80B	MoE A3B	45.09 GiB	14.21 GiB	21.61
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B	MoE A3B	45.09 GiB	14.21 GiB	21.61
gpt-oss-120b (MXFP4)	MoE A5B	59.03 GiB	28.09 GiB	15.17
Hunyuan-A13B-80B	MoE A13B	45.43 GiB	18.08 GiB	9.41
KAT-Dev-72B	dense	44.16 GiB	22.24 GiB	1.75

Method, disclosed: these are load-and-probe figures — a single 128-token generation, no warm-ups, no sustained run, no power sampling, no prefill sweep — a different protocol from every other row on this page, which is why they get their own table instead of a column. VRAM pinned at 99.4–99.8% of the card in every case. The lesson stands: “it loaded” is the trap — a card that technically runs a model at walking pace is not a card that runs it. The MoE pattern is real, though: active-3B experts spill about 12× more gracefully (21.6 tok/s) than a 72B dense crawl (1.75).

Performance per watt — the electric-bill column (tables + full method notes)

Decode tok/s divided by GPU-reported power during sustained generation. This is where the workstation card and the quiet mini-PC stop being rivals: on efficiency they’re peers for MoE models — and dense models are power hogs on both.

Per-watt figures are tok/s divided by measured watts, truncated to two decimals.

Model	RTX PRO 6000: tok/s @ W	per watt	Strix Halo: tok/s @ W	per watt	R9700: tok/s @ W	per watt
LFM2.5-8B-A1B	637.3 @ 292⚑	2.18⚠	162.4 @ 79	2.05	303.7 @ 254	1.196
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (thin power sample)	979.8 @ 216⚑	4.53⚠	—	—	455.7 @ 248	1.83⚠
LFM2.5-2.6B	482.3 @ 302⚑	1.59⚠	111.7 @ 86	1.29	231.0 @ 295	0.78
LFM2-24B-A2B	380.5 @ 240	1.58	119.2 @ 77	1.54	220.7 @ 256	0.86
Cohere North Mini Code 1.0	270.6 @ 268⚑	1.00	—	—	134.0 @ —	—
GLM-4.7-Flash	196.4 @ 214	0.91	70.2 @ 82	0.86	122.0 @ 267	0.45
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite	113.3 @ 128	0.88	104.0 @ 80	1.30	206.4 @ 263	0.78
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	190.0 @ 224	0.84	50.6 @ 78	0.64	100.7 @ 263	0.38
Mamba-Codestral-7B	184.2 @ 275	0.66	—	—	85.5 @ 290	0.29
Atla Selene-1-Mini 8B	162.3 @ 300 cap	0.54	26.2 @ 86	0.31	69.9 @ 300	0.23
Phi-4 14B	131.6 @ 300 cap	0.43	23.2 @ 90	0.25	62.0 @ 300	0.20
StarCoder2-15B	115.6 @ 300 cap	0.38	20.6 @ 90	0.22	56.1 @ 300	0.18
Sarvam 30B	364.6 @ 283	1.28	83.7 @ ~90	≈0.93	—	—
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B	273.3 @ 230	1.18	91.6 @ ~85	≈1.07	—	—
Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B	286.4 @ 256	1.11	65.9 @ ~89	≈0.74	—	—
H Company Holo 3.1 35B-A3B	221.3 @ 216	1.02	72.9 @ ~79	≈0.92	—	—
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B	224.1 @ 233	0.96	—	—	131.6 @ 217	0.60
Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B	206.4 @ 221	0.93	61.2 @ ~78	≈0.78	—	—
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B	174.3 @ 210	0.83	—	—	—	—
Qwen3-Coder-Next (0129)	174.4 @ 214	0.81	—	—	—	—
Gemma 4 31B IT (dense)	58.9 @ 300 cap	0.19	10.4 @ ~101	≈0.10	—	—
Seed-OSS 36B (dense)	57.4 @ 300 cap	0.19	10.1 @ ~103	≈0.09	—	—
Falcon-H1 34B (hybrid)	51.8 @ 300 cap	0.17	9.9 @ ~98	≈0.10	—	—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	—	—	—	—	107.0 @ —	—
Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B	—	—	—	—	131.9 @ —	—
IBM Granite 4.1 30B (dense)	69.1 @ 300 cap	0.23	—	—	31.2 @ —	—
NVIDIA Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B	298.4 @ 277⚑	1.07	59.2 @ 89⚑	0.66	—	—
Agents-A1-35B-A3B ⁂	258.6 @ 254⚑	1.01	72.4 @ 80	0.90	—	—
Ornith-1.0-35B ⁂	250.2 @ 246⚑	1.01	71.3 @ 83	0.85	—	—
KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev	253.8 @ 258⚑	0.98	—	—	—	—
Agents-A1-4B	285.1 @ 301⚑	0.94	—	—	131.0 @ 281	0.46
Ornith-1.0-9B	193.4 @ 300 cap⚑	0.64	—	—	86.2 @ 300	0.28
gpt-oss-20b (MXFP4)	—	—	—	—	168.4 @ 300	0.56
Muse-Glimmer-30B (dense)	70.2 @ 300 cap⚑	0.23	12.5 @ 86⚑	0.14	32.7 @ 300⚑	0.10
Nemotron-Super-49B v1.5 (dense)	40.5 @ 300 cap⚑	0.135	—	—	—	—

DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite on the RTX PRO 6000: matrix 156.4 is the 128-token bench; 113.3 at 128 W is the 512-token sustained rate. The CSV calls that gap an anomaly. The R9700 cell is a different machine: 206.4 at 263 W.

Method, honestly: Blackwell watts = nvidia-smi median board power during a 512-token sustained gen; Strix Halo watts = sysfs/hwmon GPU range midpoint during a 384-token gen — GPU-reported, not wall power, so cross-box comparison is directional, not billing-grade. Basis, stated: the tok/s here is the 512-token sustained rate where one was sampled and the 128-token bench rate otherwise, because power is only meaningful over the window it was sampled on — so cells here can sit a few percent under the matrix above. The matrix is the authoritative table for tok/s: where a cell below cannot be re-derived from the CSV receipts, the matrix value stands. Rows whose wattage was never sampled now read “@ —” with no per-watt figure, rather than borrowing a card-class assumption. From the 30B class up, every dense model in this measured set hits the Blackwell 300 W cap for about a fifth of the MoE speed; small dense models are a real exception — LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking runs 979.8 tok/s at 216 W, Mamba-Codestral-7B 184.2 at 275 W. For the measured rows here, MoE is the better efficiency starting point. On the mini-PC the sampled draw stays within 77–103 W, so throughput drives most of the efficiency difference.

2026-08-12: the record moved on the mini-PC and the floor dropped. LFM2.5-8B-A1B posts 2.18⚠ / 2.05 / 1.196 tok/s/W from a file one-third the size of the model it displaced. The Strix Halo figure is the receipted record — 2.05 on 79 W, about 33% clear of the previous holder (LFM2-24B at 1.54) — and on the R9700 it beats that model 1.196 to 0.862. The workstation-card figure is indicative only; the highest settled row there remains LFM2-24B at 1.57. Its 1.2B sibling also has higher but indicative readings on the Blackwell (4.55⚠) and R9700 (1.84⚠) legs. No record is claimed for a ⚠ row until a longer power window re-measures it. The floor for this table is the 49B dense class: Nemotron-Super v1.5 pins the 300 W cap for 40.5 tok/s = 0.135 tok/s/W (v1 reads 41.0 = 0.137). The MoE-vs-dense power split is a strong tendency, not a law: at 30B and up on the Blackwell card every cap-pinned row is dense while the A3B MoEs cruise 210–292 W, but small dense models stay well under the cap, and on the R9700 sparse models pin it too (gpt-oss-20b 300 W, Granite-4.0-H-Small 299 W). ⚠ = the power median rests on 3–8 samples (4.55 = 3, 2.18 = 5, 1.60 = 6) — indicative, not settled.

70B+ class on the workstation card	tok/s @ W	per watt
Mistral Small 4 119B (MoE)	138.9 @ 225	0.62
Hunyuan-A13B-80B (MoE)	138.3 @ 300	0.46
Llama-4-Scout (MoE A17B)	84.0 @ 305	0.28

Corrected 2026-08-12: this table used to carry ten rows. Seven of them — gpt-oss-120b, Sarvam 105B, Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, KAT-Dev-72B, Cohere Command A 111B, Devstral 2 123B and Mistral Large 2407 — had no power sample behind them; their wattage was assumed from the card’s 300 W cap, not measured. Our own audit caught it and removed them; the three rows left are the ones whose watts are in the receipts. Their throughput is unaffected and still published in the tables above. What the three surviving rows show: even inside one architecture family and one card, per-watt spans 0.62 down to 0.28 — and the top row earns it partly by drawing 225 W where the others pin the 300 W cap, so read the watts column, not just the ratio. The dense-vs-MoE throughput gap is real but lives in the tables above; the dense rows are not in this one, because their power was never sampled. Multi-model co-residency economics remains queued.

// the bench — hardware classes

RTX Blackwell nodes — NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell: 96 GB GDDR7 ECC · 512-bit · 1,792 GB/s · 24,064 CUDA cores · 752 5th-gen Tensor cores · 188 RT cores · PCIe 5.0 ×16. The watts shown in the perf/watt table are GPU-reported draw during the run, not a per-node limit, and node identity lives in the CSV rather than in a page column. The 250 W power-cap experiment lives in the L4B postmortem — no row on this page was measured under it. In English: the fastest workstation card — this page’s speed ceiling.
Strix Halo nodes — AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395: 16× Zen 5 (32 threads, 5.1 GHz boost) · Radeon 8060S iGPU, 40 RDNA 3.5 CUs · XDNA 2 NPU · 128 GB unified LPDDR5X-8000 · 256-bit · 256 GB/s · 45–120 W cTDP. Slow lane, huge memory — MoE country. In English: a quiet mini-PC where CPU and GPU share one memory pool — holds the biggest models on little power.
RDNA4 nodes — AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700: RDNA 4 (Navi 48) · 32 GB GDDR6 (ECC on Linux) · 256-bit · 640 GB/s · 64 CUs / 4,096 stream processors · 128 AI accelerators · 64 MB Infinity Cache · PCIe 5.0 · 300 W TBP · $1,299 MSRP. In English: an ordinary graphics card, one slot, $1,299 MSRP.

Specs from vendor datasheets/whitepapers (NVIDIA RTX Blackwell PRO architecture whitepaper Table 4; AMD product pages), fetched and verified 2026-08-11. Plural nodes per class; per-row stamps carry the exact box config.

// the detail — every engine config, one row each [ + click to open ][ − collapse ]

One row per model × hardware × quant · 3 hardware classes · origins US / CN / EU / FR / UK / CA / IN / AE / SG. A model appears once per tested configuration. Sort any column, filter by class. A “—” means not yet measured — never a guess. Depth curves and config experiments live in their own sections below.

Model	Decode live	Decode bench	Prefill t/s	~words/s	Origin	Arch	Quant	Engine	Hardware	KV/tok KiB	Date
poolside Laguna S 2.1 + draft	119.4	294.7	—	~90	US	MoE 118B-A8.5B	NVFP4	vLLM	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	38.2	2026-08
Mistral Small 4 119B (2603)	—	137.0	—	~103	FR	MoE 119B	NVFP4	vLLM	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-07
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B ‡	238.4	—	—	~179	CN	MoE 35B-A3B	NVFP4 (NVIDIA)	vLLM	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	10.35	2026-08-11
Cohere North Mini Code 1.0	195.9	194.5	≥15,200	~147	CA	MoE 30B-A3B	NVFP4ᶜ	vLLM	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	16.68	2026-08-11
GLM-4.7-Flash	—	177.2	11,535	~133	CN	MoE	NVFP4ᶜ	vLLM	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-04
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B †	—	96.2	—	~72	CN	MoE 122B-A10B	NVFP4	vLLM	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-07
gpt-oss-120b	—	225.9	—	~169	US	MoE 117B-A5B	GGUF MXFP4	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	36.0	2026-08-11
Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B	—	268.5	—	~201	US	MoE 30B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	—	204.0	6,364	~153	CN	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF UD-Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
IBM Granite 4.1 30B	73.0	69.1	2,956	~55	US	dense 30B	NVFP4ᶜ / GGUF	vLLM / llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	128	2026-08-11
gpt-oss-120b	51.8	54.6‖	508‖	~39	US	MoE 117B-A5B	GGUF UD-Q4_K_XL	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	36.0	2026-08-11
gpt-oss-120b (same-quant pair)	—	54.2	—	~41	US	MoE 117B-A5B	GGUF MXFP4	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen3-Coder-Next (0129)	55.5	59.0	715	~42	CN	MoE 80B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B	53.9	62.3	1,026	~40	US	MoE 30B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	—	59.9	—	~45	CN	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF UD-Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B-Instruct	64.4	70.4	683	~53	CN	MoE 48B-A3B (linear attn)	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	7.9	2026-08-11
SmolLM3-3B	91.2	—	—	~68	EU	dense 3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Phi-4-mini	71.6	—	—	~54	US	dense 3.8B	GGUF Q4	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Flow-Judge v0.1 (3.8B)	47.7	50.2‖	1,502	~36	EU	dense 3.8B	GGUF Q8_0	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen3-8B	40.6	—	—	~30	CN	dense 8B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Atla Selene 1 Mini (8B)	24.9	27.0	871	~19	UK	dense 8B	GGUF Q8_0	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
IBM Granite 4.1 30B	—	11.6	—	~9	US	dense 30B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B	—	107.0	2,502	~80	CN	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF UD-Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B-A3B	—	131.9	2,825	~99	US	MoE 30B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
LFM2-24B-A2B	—	380.5	9,990	~285	US	MoE 24B-A2B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Cohere North Mini Code 1.0	—	270.6⚑	7,759	~203	CA	MoE 30B-A3B	GGUF UD-Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
GLM-4.7-Flash	—	196.4	5,972	~147	CN	MoE	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	—	190.0	1,330	~143	US	MoE 26B-A4B	GGUF UD-Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Mamba-Codestral-7B	—	184.2	5,772	~138	FR	pure mamba 7B	GGUF Q4_0	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Atla Selene-1-Mini 8B	—	162.3	11,996	~122	UK	dense 8B	GGUF Q8_0	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite	—	156.4	—	~117	CN	MoE 16B-A2.4B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Phi-4 14B	—	133.2	—	~100	US	dense 14B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
StarCoder2-15B-Instruct	—	115.6	5,088	~87	US	dense 15B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
LFM2-24B-A2B	—	220.7	4,015	~166	US	MoE 24B-A2B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite	—	206.4	3,837	~155	CN	MoE 16B-A2.4B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
GLM-4.7-Flash	—	122.0	1,493	~92	CN	MoE	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Gemma-4-26B-A4B-it	—	100.7	2,670	~76	US	MoE 26B-A4B	GGUF UD-Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Mamba-Codestral-7B	—	85.5	2,339	~64	FR	pure mamba 7B	GGUF Q4_0	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Atla Selene-1-Mini 8B	—	69.9	2,804	~52	UK	dense 8B	GGUF Q8_0	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Phi-4 14B	—	62.0	1,478	~47	US	dense 14B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
StarCoder2-15B-Instruct	—	56.1	1,108	~42	US	dense 15B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B	—	131.6	2,039	~99	CN	MoE 48B-A3B (linear attn)	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	7.9	2026-08-11
Cohere North Mini Code 1.0	—	134.0	2,362	~101	CA	MoE 30B-A3B	GGUF UD-Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Mistral Small 4 119B (2603)	—	138.9	~295 (anomaly, re-measure queued)	~104	FR	MoE 119B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Hunyuan-A13B-80B	—	138.3	3,229	~104	CN	MoE 80B-A13B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Sarvam 105B	—	131.7	2,931	~99	IN	MoE 105B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B	—	117.8	3,106	~88	CN	MoE 122B-A10B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Llama-4-Scout	—	84.0	2,347	~63	US	MoE A17B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
KAT-Dev-72B	—	27.9	1,252	~21	CN	dense 72B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Cohere Command A 111B	—	19.8	778	~15	CA	dense 111B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Devstral 2 123B	—	17.8	702	~13	FR	dense 123B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Mistral Large 2407	—	17.3	697	~13	FR	dense 123B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Hunyuan-A13B-80B	—	26.7	200	~20	CN	MoE 80B-A13B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
KAT-Dev-72B	—	4.4	—	~3	CN	dense 72B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Athene-V2-72B	—	4.4	—	~3	US	dense 72B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Cohere Command A Reasoning 111B	—	3.3	—	~2	CA	dense 111B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B	—	56.9	—	~43	CN	MoE 80B-A3B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Mistral Small 4 119B (2603)	—	26.0	—	~20	FR	MoE 119B (MLA)	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
GLM-4.5-Air	—	23.2	—	~17	CN	MoE	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Llama-3.3-70B	—	5.1	—	~4	US	dense 70B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Hermes 70B	—	5.1	—	~4	US	dense 70B	GGUF Q4-class	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Sarvam 30B	—	198.4	3,613	~149	IN	MoE 32B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama-bench	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B	—	182.0	3,035	~137	CN	MoE 30B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama-bench	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B	—	137.4	2,677	~103	US	MoE 31B-A3.5B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama-bench	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
H Company Holo 3.1 35B-A3B	—	127.3	2,681	~95	FR	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama-bench	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B	—	100.2	415	~75	CN	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-07
IBM Granite 4.1 30B	—	31.2	848	~23	US	dense 30B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama-bench	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Gemma 4 31B IT	25.5	27.3	756	~19	US	dense 31B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Seed-OSS 36B	—	26.8	707	~20	CN	dense 36B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama-bench	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Falcon-H1 34B	—	24.5	725	~18	AE	hybrid 34B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama-bench	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-11
Sarvam 30B	—	364.6	11,021	~273	IN	MoE 30B (A3B-class)	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B	—	286.4	8,754	~215	US	MoE 31B-A3.5B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B	—	273.3	7,194	~205	CN	MoE 30B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B	—	224.1	6,874	~168	CN	MoE 48B-A3B (linear attn)	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	7.9	2026-08-11
H Company Holo 3.1 35B-A3B	—	221.3	6,917	~166	FR	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B	—	206.4	7,543	~155	CN	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF UD-Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen3-Coder-Next (0129)	—	174.4	4,258	~131	CN	MoE 80B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	24.0	2026-08-11
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B (thinking)	—	174.3	4,430	~131	CN	MoE 80B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Gemma 4 31B IT	—	58.9	927	~44	US	dense 31B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	42.5	2026-08-11
Seed-OSS 36B	—	57.4	2,296	~43	CN	dense 36B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Falcon-H1 34B	—	51.8	2,190	~39	AE	hybrid 34B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B	—	91.6	993	~69	CN	MoE 30B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Sarvam 30B	—	83.7	1,121	~63	IN	MoE 30B (A3B-class)	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
H Company Holo 3.1 35B-A3B	—	72.9	861	~55	FR	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B	—	65.9	945	~50	US	MoE 31B-A3.5B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Qwen-AgentWorld-35B-A3B	—	61.2	872	~46	CN	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF UD-Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Gemma 4 31B IT	—	10.4	207	~8	US	dense 31B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Falcon-H1 34B	—	9.9	211	~7	AE	hybrid 34B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
Seed-OSS 36B	—	10.1	178	~8	CN	dense 36B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-11
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking	—	979.8⚑	58,202	~735	US	dense 1.2B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-12
LFM2.5-8B-A1B	—	637.3⚑	22,298	~478	US	MoE 8.5B-A1B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-12
LFM2.5-2.6B	—	482.3⚑	26,626	~362	US	dense 2.7B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-12
NVIDIA Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B	—	298.4⚑	9,716	~224	US	MoE 33B-A3B hybrid (mamba)	GGUF Q4_K_Mᶜ	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	7.0	2026-08-12
Agents-A1-4B	—	285.1⚑	13,290	~214	CN	dense 4.2B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-12
Agents-A1-35B-A3B ⁂	—	258.6⚑	8,048	~194	CN	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-12
KAT-Coder-V2.5-Dev	—	253.8⚑	8,254	~190	CN	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_Mᶜ	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-12
Ornith-1.0-35B ⁂	—	250.2⚑	8,183	~188	US	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-12
Nanbeige-4.2-3B	—	213⚑	9,592	~160	CN	dense 4.2B	GGUF Q4_K_Mᶜ	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-12
Ornith-1.0-9B	—	193.4⚑	9,004	~145	US	dense 9B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-12
Muse-Glimmer-30B	—	70.2⚑	3,301	~53	US	dense 30B (thinking)	GGUF kquant ~4.5bpwᶜ	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-12
Nemotron-Super-49B v1	—	41⚑	1,821	~31	US	dense 49B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-12
Nemotron-Super-49B v1.5	—	40.5⚑	1,812	~30	US	dense 49B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	RTX PRO 6000 96GB	—	2026-08-12
LFM2.5-8B-A1B	—	162.4	2,662	~122	US	MoE 8.5B-A1B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-12
LFM2.5-2.6B	—	111.7	2,772	~84	US	dense 2.7B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-12
Agents-A1-35B-A3B ⁂	—	72.4	844	~54	CN	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-12
Ornith-1.0-35B ⁂	—	71.3	845	~53	US	MoE 35B-A3B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-12
NVIDIA Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B	—	59.2⚑	722	~44	US	MoE 33B-A3B hybrid (mamba)	GGUF Q4_K_Mᶜ	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-12
Mamba-Codestral-7B	—	37.3⚑	478	~28	FR	pure mamba 7B	GGUF Q4_0	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-12
Muse-Glimmer-30B	—	12.5⚑	240	~9	US	dense 30B (thinking)	GGUF kquant ~4.5bpwᶜ	llama.cpp	Strix Halo 128GB	—	2026-08-12
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking	—	455.7	15,849	~342	US	dense 1.2B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
LFM2.5-8B-A1B	—	303.7	7,350	~228	US	MoE 8.5B-A1B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
LFM2.5-2.6B	—	231	7,591	~173	US	dense 2.7B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
gpt-oss-20b	—	168.4	3,270	~126	US	MoE 21B-A3.6B	GGUF MXFP4	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Agents-A1-4B	—	131	4,464	~98	CN	dense 4.2B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Nanbeige-4.2-3B	—	108.5⚑	2,210	~81	CN	dense 4.2B	GGUF Q4_K_Mᶜ	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Ornith-1.0-9B	—	86.2	2,780	~65	US	dense 9B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2	—	73	2,177	~55	US	hybrid 9B (mamba)	GGUF Q4_K_Mᶜ	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
IBM Granite-4.0-H-Small	—	72.8	1,408	~55	US	MoE 32B-A9B hybrid (mamba)	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Apriel-1.5-15B-Thinker ◊	—	62.3	1,481	~47	US	dense 15B	GGUF Q4_K_Mᶜ	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Phi-4-Reasoning	—	61.3	1,475	~46	US	dense 14B	GGUF Q4_K_Mᶜ	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Reka-Flash-3.1	—	41.7	850	~31	US	dense 21B	GGUF Q4_K_Mᶜ	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Magistral-Small	—	40.6	939	~30	FR	dense 24B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Devstral-Small-2507	—	40.6	938	~30	FR	dense 24B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Mistral-Small-3.2-24B	—	39.5	939	~30	FR	dense 24B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Muse-Glimmer-30B	—	32.7⚑	859	~25	US	dense 30B (thinking)	GGUF kquant ~4.5bpwᶜ	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B	—	31.1	837	~23	SG	dense 27B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Qwen3-32B	—	29	614	~22	CN	dense 32.8B	GGUF Q4_K_M	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12
Olmo-3-32B-Think	—	28.8	679	~22	US	dense 32B	GGUF Q4_K_Mᶜ	llama.cpp	R9700 32GB	—	2026-08-12

Two decode columns, one honest difference: live = salted timed completion direct to the serving engine, short prompt, includes prefill + one LAN hop, n=5–6 — the floor you'd feel. bench = pure generation timing, prompt cost excluded (llama-bench tg128 r=5, or 128-token warm gens n=2–3) — the number most sites publish. Where both exist they sit side by side; bench usually reads higher, and now you can see by how much. Where a row’s Quant/Engine cells carry a slash, the two decode columns came from different configs — left of the slash feeds the live cell, right feeds the bench cell — so that pair is a config difference, not a live-vs-bench method delta. Per-cell n and per-run samples: CSV.

‖ = re-measured 2026-08-11 after our own audit found these two cells were short bursts (82 and 21 tokens) published as full 128-token runs. Corrected: gpt-oss-120b 59.1 → 54.6 with prefill 469 → 508 (we were 8% too fast) and Flow-Judge 36.2 → 50.2 with prefill 751 → 1,502 (we were 39% too slow — that run was truncated and cold-started). Independent check on gpt-oss: a different quant of the same model on the same box reads 54.2, agreeing to 0.7%. ¶ = arch refusal on that box’s llama.cpp build, published rather than hidden. Flags: † = July one-shot (n=1), current-build re-runs queued. ‡ = adversarially re-swept with per-run samples in the CSV after an outside review challenged the zero-width range — stability real, zero width was rounding. ᶜ = community quant, not vendor-official (quantizer named in the CSV) — official checkpoints exist for Laguna (poolside) and Qwen3.6 NVFP4 (NVIDIA ModelOpt); on Muse-Glimmer-30B it also marks a quant deviation, a ~4.5 bpw k-quant standing in for a Q4_K_M that does not exist, so those rows are not same-quant comparable with the Q4_K_M ladder. poolside re-released the Laguna NVFP4 repo in Aug 2026; our revision is pinned in the CSV. The 250 W power-cap experiment lives in the postmortem — buyer data here, ops archaeology there.

Two rows carry a ceiling worth knowing before you buy on speed alone: Phi-4 and StarCoder2-15B are native 16,384-context models — they benched fine at our 32K protocol but warned, and they can never serve long context no matter which card you put them on. Speed is not the only axis. KV/tok is engine-reported at boot, not a formula — parameter count does not predict memory cost, and the spread in that column is 18× (7.0 to 128 KiB/token; the full KV ladder below spans 120×). Gaps there are queued: the current test window records it for every model booted. Blackwell “short” rows were measured with all three engines co-resident on one node — the as-deployed floor, not the card's isolated ceiling; single-tenant re-runs land with the three-card matrix. Value stat, card MSRP only: Sarvam 30B decodes 198.4 tok/s on the $1,299 MSRP R9700. MSRP only; October 2026 street price is higher. Words/s ≈ tok/s × 0.75, stated conversion.

// long context — what depth costs

Model · hardware	@32K prefill / decode	@100K prefill / decode	@200K prefill / decode
poolside Laguna S 2.1 · RTX PRO 6000	12,775 / 69.1	8,892 / 62.0	5,926 / —*
Qwen3-Coder-Next · Strix Halo	616 / 48.7	426 / 37.2	255 / 27.1
Kimi-Linear-48B · R9700 32GB ($1,299 MSRP card)	2,039 / 131.6	2,095 / 131.6 (@128K)	—
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B · RTX PRO 6000	—	—	—

Cells are prefill t/s / decode tok/s at that actual prompt depth (measured 27–28K / 85–87K / 170–175K against the nominal buckets; n=3 per cell except the Strix 200K point, n=1 at 688 s per rep — one honest sample, disclosed). * = the 2-call method can't resolve vLLM decode at 200K; empty until a method can. Corrected 2026-08-12: the Qwen3.5-122B row now carries no cells. The prefill and decode figures printed there were a July single-shot vLLM run at short prompt, not a depth sweep on this protocol — the row stays listed, and empty, until one is run. Decode slows as the KV grows; prefill slows as the prompt grows — pick the box by your bottleneck. The 128K fit test: a 48B linear-attention model at full 131,072 context on the $1,299 MSRP 32 GB card — full GPU offload, f16 KV, zero tweaks, 2.66 GiB headroom left. Going 32K → 128K cost 852 MiB and nothing in speed (131.6 both). We then pushed 38,400 real tokens of prompt through it at 1,463 tok/s — allocatable and usable are different claims, and this is the second one.

// the depth curves — does it slow down at 100K? measured, not vibes

The question is what speed remains once the context is actually full. We prefilled real tokens to each depth (tokenizer-calibrated per model, actual prompt lengths 26 / 32,671 / 65,440 / 99,001) and timed full 128-token decodes at every point — every generation length-verified, no truncated runs. Four architectures on the 128 GB unified-memory mini-PC, launched at 131,072 context, f16 KV. Every measured model slows. The useful comparison is the slope — and parameter count does not set it: the 48B here decays faster than both the 80B and the 120B.

Model · Strix Halo 128GB	Attention	KV @ 131K	decode @ 0	@ 32K	@ 64K	@ 100K	retained @ 100K
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B (thinking)	hybrid linear	3.46 GiB	59.0	45.2	39.6	34.5	58.6%
gpt-oss-120b	sliding window	4.49 GiB	53.4	34.4	32.1	26.8	50.3%
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B	linear	1.40 GiB	69.0	47.7	38.7	32.1	46.4%
Hunyuan-A13B-80B	full attention	16.54 GiB	26.7	15.2	12.9	cut††	48.2% @ 64K

Same runs — the prefill wall	prefill @ 32K	@ 64K	@ 100K	time to first token at 100K depth
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B	604.5	502.5	405.7	4m 04s
Kimi-Linear-48B-A3B	480.0	328.1	246.2	6m 42s
gpt-oss-120b	364.4	257.4	177.4	9m 18s
Hunyuan-A13B-80B	163.7	56.5	—	19m 18s just to reach 64K

What the curves say: (1) A fat KV cache is a hard tax at the extreme — but cache size alone does not rank the slope — Hunyuan carries 12× Kimi’s KV and is the only model to lose half its speed by 64K, and on unified memory that cache competes with the weights for the same bandwidth. Below that extreme the ranking inverts: Kimi has the smallest cache of the four (1.40 GiB) and the worst retention (46.4% @100K), while Qwen3-Next carries 2.5× the cache and retains best (58.6%). Parameter count predicts nothing either — 48B, 80B and 120B interleave in both columns. (2) Most of the damage lands in the first 32K (−23% to −43%) — which is exactly why capping context at 32K does not buy the speed back. By 32K you have already paid 56–83% of the total decode loss, so dropping from 100K back to 32K returns only 17–44% of what depth cost you (Qwen3-Next 44%, Kimi 42%, gpt-oss 29%, Hunyuan 17% measured to 64K). Budget for the deep number, not the shallow one. (3) Prefill is the real wall, not decode — decode at 100K is merely ~2× slower, but getting there costs minutes: 9m 18s of silence before gpt-oss-120b’s first token. For interactive use the binding constraint is time-to-first-token. (4) Sliding-window buys a plateau, not immunity — gpt-oss drops hard to 32K, then nearly flattens for the next 32K. †† = the Hunyuan 100K cell was cut on purpose and disclosed: its own curve projected ~35–40 minutes of prefill for that single number — the missing cell is the finding. Depth-0 speeds at 131K allocation land within −2.2% to +3.7% of our published 32K-protocol numbers for the same models on the same box (Hunyuan 26.7 vs 26.7, Kimi 69.0 vs 70.4, gpt-oss 53.4 vs 54.6, Qwen3-Next 59.0 vs 56.9); only Hunyuan reproduces to ±0.3%. The widest gap, Qwen3-Next at +3.7%, sits on top of a +3.4% spread between our own two runs of that model on that box, and the errors are signed both ways rather than systematically slower — so allocating a big context costs essentially nothing until you fill it. Blackwell cross-check, same night — both rows ⚑, measured on a transient build rather than the pinned build the Strix curves above ran on, so read them against each other and not against the rows above: Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B⚑ at 131,072 context costs ~0.9 GiB of KV, decodes 321 tok/s shallow and 254 tok/s with 100K tokens in front of it (−21%), prefilling those 100K in 10 seconds — the big card moves the wall, it doesn’t remove it. Meta’s Muse-Glimmer-30B⚑ at 128K on the same card — on a ~4.5 bpw community k-quantᶜ, not a Q4_K_M — holds −12% decode at 100K depth with 2,831 tok/s deep prefill.

// kv cache — memory beyond the weights

Every token of context costs memory beyond the weights — the KV cache. This page measures it because it can determine whether a long-context configuration fits at all. Engine-reported values, converted across context depths. The spread below is 120× — and in these rows it tracks architecture more closely than model size.

Model	KV dtype	KiB / token	@8K GiB	@32K GiB	@128K GiB	@model max
Nemotron-Cascade-2-30B (6 attn / 52L)	q8_0	3.19	0.02	0.10	0.39	0.80 @262K
Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B (hybrid mamba)	f16	7.0*	0.05	0.22	0.87	— (1M declared)
Kimi-Linear-48B (linear attn)	f16	7.9	0.06	0.25	0.98	—
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (hybrid)	fp8	10.35	0.08	0.32	1.26	2.59 @262K
Cohere North Mini Code 1.0	fp8	16.68	0.13	0.52	2.08	2.08 @131K
Qwen3-Coder-Next 80B (12 attn / 48L)	f16	24.0	0.18	0.75	3.0	6.0 @262K
gpt-oss-120b (iSWA)	f16	36.0*	0.28	1.13	4.5	4.53 @131K
Gemma 4 31B (10 global + 50 SWA)	q8_0	42.5*	0.33	1.33	5.3	11.05 @262K
Cohere Command A Reasoning 111B (iSWA)	f16	~91*	0.71	2.84	—	—
IBM Granite 4.1 30B (dense, 64L)	fp8	128.0	1.0	4.0	16.0	8.0 @64K served
Hunyuan-A13B-80B	f16	128.0	1.0	4.0	16.5	—
Atla Selene 1 Mini 8B	f16	128.0	1.0	—	—	2.0 @16K
KAT-Dev / Athene 72B (dense)	f16	320.0	2.5	10.0	40.0	—
Flow-Judge 3.8B (dense, fat heads)	f16	384.0	3.0	12.0	—	3.0 @8K

* = SWA/iSWA models: the scaling part only — their sliding-window layers add a small fixed pool, so long-context totals run slightly above the pure product. The 3.8B judge model costs 120× more memory per token than the 30B at the top: attention-layer count × KV-head count × head-dim × dtype, not parameter count. Measured sibling: at f16/32K the hybrid 100B-class models hold 0.63–1.27 GiB of KV where the dense-72B pair holds 10.0 GiB — 13× on the same box, same context. In English: if you want long documents in a home rig, pick a model with hybrid, linear, or sliding-window attention — classic dense makes context a second GPU.

// config experiments — same model, different config

Model	Variant	Result	Baseline	The lesson
poolside Laguna S 2.1	speculative draft OFF	100.7 tok/s	294.7 w/ draft	the draft model is +192% — but KV goes 24.0 → 38.2 KiB/tok, so not free
Qwen3.5-122B-A10B	`--enforce-eager`	23.1 tok/s	96.2 configured	the most-copied “OOM fix” costs 76%
GLM-4.7-Flash	MLA disabled (fallback)	~470 KiB/tok KV	177.2 tok/s configured	one flag = a ~470 KiB/token memory bill

These configurations were selected because they appeared in field guidance. In the recorded 122B comparison, the configuration change explained the measured 23–33 tok/s result; the hardware did not change.

// pick by workload — what our own numbers say

Chat & code at 8–32K on a quiet box, card budget ≤$1.5K → RDNA4 R9700 + a 30B MoE — 127–198 tok/s measured above.
Long-context RAG or agent runs at 100K+ → RTX Blackwell 96GB + vLLM — 5.9-8.9K t/s prefill at 100K-200K context (12.8K at 32K) measured above.
Biggest models on one low-power box → Strix Halo unified memory — a 120B-class MoE at ~52 tok/s in the live sweep. MoE country — the memory table above shows why.

Every arrow above cites a measurement on this page, not a spec sheet. If your workload isn't here, ask for it — requests section below.

// Queue as frozen on 2026-08-12. Nothing here is in progress. No row on this page is newer than that date.

Under-50B class, three cards, same GGUF: fill every cell of the matrix — more American, more Indian, more origins; the unpublished queue holds the rest.
120B MoE battles: Blackwell 96 GB GDDR7 vs Strix Halo 128 GB unified — same models both ways, GGUF and NVFP4 on Blackwell.
Quant ladder with speed AND quality on one rig (Q4 vs Q5 vs Q8: tok/s + KLD) — a common practical comparison.
Model load / swap time tables per size, storage, and runtime — chronic pain, near-zero published data.
Long-context curves: TTFT + prefill t/s at 32K / 100K / 200K, cold vs warm.
Raw vs harnessed: how these models perform inside open-source agent harnesses — tokens burned, wall-clock, task success, answer drift vs the bare endpoint, from a shop that sells no gateway.
Co-residency economics: three 30Bs sharing the 96 GB card at once vs three boxes — throughput per model, per watt, per dollar.
32 GB vs 32 GB: an NVIDIA 32 GB-class card beside the R9700 — same models, same GGUF, the $1,299 MSRP question answered side by side.
YaRN at length: quality-vs-context ladders for extended-context configs — admitted-unsupplied even by the people who publish quant benchmarks.
Tokens per joule + idle draw per box; unedited screen captures of real-time generation.
Multi-model co-residency: N engines sharing one card vs single-tenant — the floors you actually get in deployment, both big boxes.

// how we test — no secrets, run it yourself

llama-bench rows: llama-bench -m <model.gguf> -p 512 -p 8192 -n 128 -r 5 -o json — prompt-processing at 512 and 8,192 synthetic tokens, then 128 generated tokens, five repetitions, JSON out. Stock binary, stock flags (full GPU offload, mmap on). No prompt tricks — llama-bench feeds synthetic tokens, so there's nothing to cherry-pick.
Live-sweep rows: a real request, direct to the engine (no gateway): a randomly-salted prompt (“<fresh-hex>: Write a plain-English 200-word explanation of how a car alternator works.”), max_tokens=256, n=6, first run discarded as warmup, 1s spacing. tok/s = completion tokens ÷ wall-clock, so it includes prefill and one LAN hop — the number you'd actually feel, not the flattering one.
Every response's model identity is verified against the engine's own report — because gateways lie when a fallback kicks in, and we caught ours doing it.
Raw data: st4ts_data.csv ships alongside this page — mean/min/max and stddev per row, per-run samples where captured (the challenged rows carry them; all new sweeps will), and the llama.cpp build commit where recorded. Build commit is per row in the CSV. Gaps say so rather than guess. If your numbers disagree with ours, we want to see them.

// requests — tell us what to measure

The bench: NVIDIA RTX Blackwell nodes · AMD Strix Halo nodes · AMD RDNA4 R9700s · llama.cpp and vLLM.
Got a model, quant, context length, or head-to-head you want real numbers on? Send it: reed@directive4.ai — the benchmarks desk. Real-world requests get priority over synthetic ones.
We test models from everywhere — US, Europe, China — on the same hardware, same protocol. Balance is the point.

// correction log — dated

2026-08-12 — the audit: a reader called one cell, so we re-checked every cell. The founder read the 70B+ table and called the R9700 column unbelievable. He was right to. The number was real — a receipted spill probe — but a table reorganization had dropped its context and left its flag pointing at the wrong legend. The full-page audit that followed checked every published number, flag, and claim against the available raw-data receipts and confirmed 84 defects: 25 values unreceipted or contradicting their receipt (corrected to the receipted value or removed), 59 claims and flags missing load-bearing context (now carrying it). The big ones, printed rather than buried: the “leads all three cards” line for LFM2.5-8B-A1B was wrong — it leads one column, its 1.2B sibling leads another; a wave-3 “record” claim was wrong; seven perf/watt rows carried assumed wattage and are gone until measured; five big-table cells sat in the wrong hardware column; one long-context row had no probe behind it and is gone; spill numbers moved to their own section with their method disclosed. Corrections ran both ways again — Laguna’s draft-assisted decode was actually faster than we printed (283.1 → 294.7). The page and CSV were reconciled for those audited defects; the separate sample-count gaps disclosed at the top remain. Struck text in older entries below points here. Named, so you can check us: the “leads all three cards” claim for LFM2.5-8B-A1B — it leads one column, its 1.2B sibling leads another; a wave-3 “record” that wasn’t one; seven perf/watt rows whose wattage was assumed from the card’s cap rather than measured — removed until sampled; five 70B+ cells holding a mini-PC number in the workstation-card column; a long-context row with no probe behind it; a KV-cache row for a model with no receipt anywhere in the raw data; a spill-test number tabled beside protocol rows it was never comparable to — now its own section with its method stated; a July row that merged two engines and two quants into one line; and a “per watt the mini-PC ties or wins” claim we withdrew rather than replace with another unmeasured one. One correction ran in our favour: Laguna’s draft-assisted decode was faster than we printed (283.1 → 294.7).

[ + ] earlier updates (10)[ − ] earlier updates (10)

2026-08-12 — wave-5: the depth curves land — the first measured answer to “does it slow down at 100K context?” on this class of hardware (yes: models keep 46–59% of their speed, the KV cache sets the slope, and prefill — minutes of it — is the real wall). 39 new rows, ~20 new models including the Mistral 24B trio, more US rows (Olmo-3, Granite-H, Reka, Phi-4-Reasoning, Nemotron-Nano-9B), Singapore’s SEA-LION, and Meta’s brand-new Muse-Glimmer-30B. Records: LFM2.5-8B-A1B takes the top of the matrix on all three cards at once and the perf/watt crown on each — it tops the Strix Halo column and takes that box’s perf/watt record outright; its 1.2B sibling leads the other two speed columns; the mini-PC sustained record jumps 36% to 162.4. Head-to-heads with verdicts: Nemotron-Super v1 vs v1.5 is a dead heat (the .5 is a quality release — throughput can’t see it), and the Qwen3.6 “MTP” GGUF is 529 MB of dead weight on llama.cpp — the engine discards those tensors at load, so the delta is zero by construction. Discovery: two “different” releases (Ornith-1.0-35B, US and Agents-A1-35B, CN) are the same weights under two names — GGUF files 128 bytes apart, identical headers. New ⚑ flag marks rows measured on a transient llama.cpp build (several new architectures refuse the pinned build); the wave-4 Mamba-Codestral refusal is closed the same way at 37.3. ~~Two benched models are held off the page pending license review~~ — four are — read first, publish second. — corrected 2026-08-12, see audit entry
2026-08-11 — the two withdrawn numbers came back, and the errors ran both ways: gpt-oss-120b was 8% too fast (59.1 → 54.6), Flow-Judge was 39% too slow (36.2 → 50.2, prefill 751 → 1,502 — that one was truncated and cold). A defect that only ever flattered us would be a thumb on the scale; this one cost us a number and gave one back. Strix Halo column completed for the wave-4 models — LFM2-24B sets a new record for that box at 119.2 and takes the efficiency crown on both cards (1.54 tok/s per watt, 30× the 72B dense).
2026-08-11 — wave-4: nine more models across two cards, and a new Built on column. A country flag says who published a model, not whose weights it started from — so Holo now reads “France, built on Qwen3.6 (CN)” and Selene reads “UK, built on Llama-3.1 (US),” from GGUF headers and publisher cards, 76 models classified. New leader: Liquid AI’s LFM2-24B at 380.5 tok/s. First pure-Mamba row (Codestral 7B). The 70B+ table gains an R9700 column showing what happens when a model is twice the size of the card: it loads by spilling into system RAM and crawls — 1.8 tok/s for a 72B dense. Published because “it loaded” is the trap.
2026-08-11 — correction, self-caught: an internal audit of every published row found four defects of one kind — a generation that stopped early being reported as a full-length run. Two were on this page as bench numbers and are now withdrawn pending re-measurement (gpt-oss-120b UD-Q4_K_XL, previously 59.1; Flow-Judge 3.8B, previously 36.2 — 82 and 21 actual tokens). Two were correctable from the logs and are now right: Falcon-H1 34B on Strix Halo 10.3 → 9.9, Nemotron-3-Nano 66.0 → 65.9. Old values stay printed here on purpose. The audit also cleared 45 other rows as verified-clean.
2026-08-11 — the 128K fit test on the cheap card: Kimi-Linear-48B runs full 131,072 context on the 32 GB R9700 with 2.66 GiB to spare and no speed penalty — 131.6 tok/s at both 32K and 128K. Its matrix cell fills at 131.6 (1.86× the mini-PC on the same file).
2026-08-11 — restructure by weight class: the matrix is now the 30B class (what an ordinary card holds), the 70B+ class gets its own two-box table, and both gained Params / Active / Type columns. Performance-per-watt adds the R9700 (hwmon-measured) and a 70B+ Blackwell table — the 10× MoE-vs-dense efficiency spread inside one weight class is the finding.
2026-08-11 — wave-3: 19 new rows in one day (11 Blackwell + 8 Strix Halo, zero failures, boxes restored and verified). New records: ~~Sarvam 30B at 364.6 tok/s on the workstation card and 83.7 on the mini-PC — fastest GGUF we've ever measured on both~~ Sarvam 30B at 364.6 tok/s on the workstation card, the fastest GGUF we've ever measured on that box; on the mini-PC the wave's record went to Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B at 91.6, with Sarvam second at 83.7. Matrix gains an origin column; new performance-per-watt table (GPU-reported watts). Pattern finds: the two 80B "twins" benched within 0.1 tok/s of each other (174.4 vs 174.3) — architecture sets the row, not the finetune; the 30B dense class slams the 300 W cap at a fifth of MoE speed on every box. — corrected 2026-08-12, see audit entry
2026-08-11 — same-quant 120B row closed: the identical MXFP4 file on the workstation card and the mini-PC (225.9 vs 54.2 — 4.2× the throughput; ~~~6× the power, so per-watt the mini-PC ties or wins~~ no per-watt winner is claimed because the same-file pair was not power-sampled on both machines). Six more Strix Halo large-class rows, the linear-attention 48B leg, and a new KV-cache cost table: 14 models, a 120× per-token memory spread. — corrected 2026-08-12, see audit entry
2026-08-11 — tables unified into one master spreadsheet after founder review: one schema, origin on every row, per-class filters. The old layout scattered the same metric across four table shapes; this one shows its gaps instead of hiding them behind table boundaries.
2026-08-11 — first public cut: live fleet sweep (14 engines), R9700 30B ladder (8 models), long-context probes at 32K/100K/200K. Strix Halo + Blackwell ladder legs in progress. One correction already logged in the raw CSV: a mid-run cleanup truncated one benchmark's output; the run was discarded and re-run clean, and the incident is written down instead of erased.

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