ExLlamaV3 Official Release Brings Major Speedups
Unstable_Llama · reddit · 2026-07-15
ExLlamaV3 has officially released version 1.0.0. The author summarized a massive batch of performance and engineering upgrades over the past year.
Key updates include:
- Removing flash-attention-2 and xformers dependencies
- Expanding tensor parallel support to more models, including Gemma4
- A new attention kernel: supporting online cache quantization, SWA layers, and attention sinks
- A new graph path, conv1d kernel, INT8 GEMV kernel, and MoE kernel scheduler
- Massively improved GEMM/GEMV performance on the Ampere architecture
- Added support for multiple new models, along with tons of bugfixes / QoL improvements
- Optimized extension compilation speed
The author's positioning is clear: this is a major release focused on raw inference performance, especially suited for users interested in local deployment and high-throughput inference.
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