How to Tune llama.cpp --n-gpu-layers: A Practical VRAM Guide (2026)
You already know what --n-gpu-layers does. It moves transformer layers onto your GPU. This post is the next step: how to actually pick the number. If …
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How fast is LlamaStash? Overhead, throughput, and a fair comparison with Ollama and LM Studio
Originally published at deepu.tech . In my release post for LlamaStash I made a claim I need to back up. The wrapper adds zero overhead vs running lla…
Benchmarking the Claude Agent SDK on a local LLM: Haiku and Sonnet tier performance
The Claude Agent SDK exposes three budget tiers ( haiku , sonnet , opus ) and reads its routing target from environment variables on every call. That …
Qwen 3.6 27B and 35B MTP vs Standard on 16GB GPU
I tested Speculative decoding (Multi-Token Prediction, MTP) performance in Qwen 3.6 27B and 35B on an RTX 4080 with 16 GB VRAM. For a broader view of …
Ollama vs llama.cpp vs vLLM: Which Should You Use in 2026?
From the Best GPU for LLM archive. The canonical version has interactive calculators, an up-to-date GPU comparison table, and live pricing. Three tool…
Discontinued Optane Local LLM Powers a Kimi K2.5 Desktop Run
A user on r/LocalLLaMA reported on May 12 that an Optane local LLM desktop build ran Moonshot’s Kimi K2.5 at about 4 tokens per second using discontin…