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LLM Benchmarks
3 posts on llm benchmarks — guides and lab notes from real runs on hardware we own. New posts land here automatically. Start anywhere, or grab the copy-paste prompts that ship with them.
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My 5090 benchmark was missing the field I needed most
A fresh Qwen3.5 9B run showed 84.94 tok/s, but the useful number was the 6,105 ms load phase. I added phase timings and capture time to the benchmark receipt.
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How I Keep LLM Results Valid After a Driver Update
A new GPU snapshot does not refresh an old benchmark. I show how I bind driver, runtime, workload, and timestamps to each local LLM result.
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Your local LLM benchmark is probably lying to you
A local model pass rate can be true and useless at the same time. Here are the three ways local LLM benchmarks mislead you, drawn from real rows on my RTX 5090.
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