Alibaba's RISC-V XuanTie C950 runs Qwen 3.8B at 30 tokens/s

DeltaSqueezer · reddit · 2026-08-19

Alibaba's T-Head RISC-V processor XuanTie C950 runs the Qwen 3.8B model at 30 tokens/s, as discussed on Reddit. The poster quips "who needs GPUs?", showing that mid-size LLM inference on RISC-V without a GPU is becoming practical — a notable data point for edge/low-power inference.

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