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mesa PR with 37-130% llama.cpp pp perf gain for vulkan on Linux on Intel Xe2

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20 Aug
[Draft - Open PR] AVX2: Speed up large batch size prompt processing of IQ models by bartowski1182 · Pull Request #27402 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1vtgyzf/draft_open_pr_avx2_speed_up_large_batch_size/"> <img alt="[Draft - Open PR] AVX2: Speed up large

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5 May
Vulkan backend outperforms ROCm on Strix Halo (gfx1151) — llama.cpp benchmark

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Just ran some llama-bench comparisons between ROCm and Vulkan backends on my Strix Halo system. Vulkan came out ahead, which surprised me.</p>

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14 Oct
cuda, hip: GDN chunked kernel by am17an · Pull Request #29353 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1x5skta/cuda_hip_gdn_chunked_kernel_by_am17an_pull/"> <img alt="cuda, hip: GDN chunked kernel by am17an ·

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10 May
NCCL-Free Tensor Parallelism on Dual Blackwell PCIe llama.cpp b9095 released!

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>b9095 finally makes -sm tensor work on dual consumer Blackwell PCIe GPUs without NCCL</p> <p>If youre on dual Blackwell gpus this look like it

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16 Oct
Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5 brings big improvements

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1x7qsh8/intel_llmscalervllm_pv_15_brings_big_improvements/"> <img alt="Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5 brings

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18 May
llama.cpp MTP support landed - Qwen3.6 27B at 2.44× on a Strix Halo, 2.17× on a RTX 3090 rig

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>PR #22673 (commit 4f13cb7) landed MTP speculative decoding in mainline llama.cpp on May 16. I tested it on two separate rigs.</p> <p>Qwen3.6 27B,

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2 Oct
AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform OS updated with ROCm 10.0, Linux 7.2

<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1ww49o9/amd_ryzen_ai_developer_platform_os_updated_with/"> <img alt="AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform OS

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9 Apr
ggml: backend-agnostic tensor parallelism by JohannesGaessler · Pull Request #19378 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

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