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Basalt: Flash-Next at 665 tok/s structured, 354 prose on a 5090 + 5060 Ti (2.6x Strata)

Basalt: Blackwell inference engine Hi all! So over the last week I've been working on a Strata fork that's heavily tuned and can achieve throughput up to 2.6x what Strata usually does on the same weights. It's designed as a specialized engine that only supports Qwen3.8 Flash-Next and Blackwell arch…

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  1. 2026-10-10 00:58 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Basalt: Flash-Next at 665 tok/s structured, 354 prose on a 5090 + 5060 Ti (2.6x Strata)

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