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Summary

The article introduces 1Cat-vLLM, a fork of vLLM optimized for NVIDIA V100 GPUs, and compares its performance with llama.cpp for serving large language models like Qwen3.6-35b.

For those who have V100 cards, I wanted to point you to 1Cat-vLLM, a vLLM fork that enables optimized serving for these cards. Showing stats for Qwen3.6-35b comparing a Strix Halo with a hughly optimized llama.cpp fork (pwilkin) and the V100 with 1Cat. It’s not apples to apples, but I decided to show the raw numbers from llama-benchy so folks get an idea of the performance. IMO this is still very good for 10 year old GPUs. Welcome any other suggestions for optimization!
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