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Running DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on one RTX 4090: the bottleneck was the SSD

Builder MinLiBuilds (posting in Chinese) ran a 2-bit DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 quant on a modded 48GB RTX 4090 and got only 5.35 tokens/s, then found that despite an 89.4% expert-cache hit rate each token still pulled about 77.7 MB of expert data from a SAT...

Source: Scobleizer News Pulse (X) · x.com Found via Robert Scoble’s Scobleizer News Pulse · a post on X, not independently verified Published 2026-10-25T04:05:00+00:00 Detected 2026-10-25T05:26:00+00:00
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Builder MinLiBuilds (posting in Chinese) ran a 2-bit DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 quant on a modded 48GB RTX 4090 and got only 5.35 tokens/s, then found that despite an 89.4% expert-cache hit rate each token still pulled about 77.7 MB of expert data from a SAT...

Builder MinLiBuilds (posting in Chinese) ran a 2-bit DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 quant on a modded 48GB RTX 4090 and got only 5.35 tokens/s, then found that despite an 89.4% expert-cache hit rate each token still pulled about 77.7 MB of expert data from a SATA SSD. With 256GB of RAM available, changing two cache...

Signal Strength 88% Technical label WATCH Public Interest 46 Category RESEARCH Reader Depth TECHNICAL

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Recognizable Entity Score 51 Practical Impact Score 18 Novelty Interest Score 94 Consequence Score 34 Curiosity Score 0 Shareability Score 59

VQV surfaced this signal because it is recent, relevant to LLM Inference, connected to Scobleizer News Pulse (X).