Poolside Laguna S 2.1 hits 256K context on a 96GB local GPU rig
_TheWolfOfWalmart_ · reddit · 2026-07-22
The author says Poolside’s Laguna S 2.1 arrived just in time for a newly upgraded local rig: 3× V620 GPUs for 96 GB of VRAM.
- They’re testing Laguna with Q4KM quantization and 256K context at F16.
- Early results on a Dell PowerEdge R740 with dual Xeon Gold 6248R and 768 GB RAM: about 400–600 tok/s prefill and 16–20 tok/s generation so far.
- They note dflash is still disabled, and the setup is costing about $350 per card.
- The user is running an HTML flight-simulator test to probe real-world behavior.
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