R9V: A designer set of kernels I've been working on for R9700s/RDNA4. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Unsloth IQ4_XS (w/ TP on 2 R9700s, MTP, SSD n-gram, 128k ctx, vision): TG256 of *78 tok/s* (~3x increase), PP8192 of *1510 tok/s* (~30x increase).
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TL;DR: Ninfer/DS4 but for RDNA4 Highly custom kernels built for RDNA4, applied to vLLM-Radiance to greatly improve Qwen3.8 Flash Next speeds. This is mostly for dual R9700s with preferably 48GB of RAM or higher, but feel free to tinker. SOTA-Scan/DeepGit report in repo. For dense models, I have my…
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R9V: A designer set of kernels I've been working on for R9700s/RDNA4. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Unsloth IQ4_XS (w/ TP on 2 R9700s, MTP, SSD n-gram, 128k ctx, vision): TG256 of *78 tok/s* (~3x increase), PP8192 of *1510 tok/s* (~30x increase).
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