Optimizing GLM 5.3 Flash NVFP4 on a 450W RTX 6000 WS: 162 to 242 tok/s step by step

TheZachMueller · x · 2026-10-28

TheZach Mueller shares a stage-by-stage optimization log for serving GLM 5.3 Flash NVFP4 on power-limited (450W) RTX 6000 Workstations: baseline 162–168 tok/s/user, +P2P allreduce 201.5, +online NVFP4 attention 219.54, merged projection 220 median / 250 best, a KDA numwarps fix saving 0.12ms/round, and autotune + fused finalize reaching 242.70 @ 300s. A practical FP4 inference tuning ladder.

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