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Vulkan Is Quietly Outpacing CUDA for Specific LLMs on Consumer GPUs

Benchmarks reveal Vulkan achieving up to 2.2× speedup over CUDA for select quantized models on RTX 3080, challenging assumptions about optimal local inference backends.

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DGX Spark: The Overpriced ‘DevBox’ That’s Quietly Reshaping AI Research

How NVIDIA’s $4,000 mini-supercomputer is sparking controversy by giving small academic labs a fighting chance against Big Tech’s GPU empires, while potentially locking them into CUDA forever.

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llama.cpp’s Qwen3 Integration Pits Local AI Against the Cloud Giants

After months of development, Qwen3-Next is finally coming to llama.cpp with optimized CUDA operations, enabling fast local inference on consumer NVIDIA hardware.

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