Show HN: Running Gemma-4 26B at 124 tokens/SEC on a CPU, no GPU
A 26B MoE on a desktop CPU, no GPU. The recipe, the byte budget, the dead-ends.
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I wanted to know how fast a 26B mixture-of-experts model could run on a desktop CPU with no GPU. Got ~40 tok/s single-stream (lossless) and ~124 batched. The surprising part was the byte budget: for this model you compress the output head (32% of per-token bytes), not the experts (16%). The writeup has the bandwidth roofline and the dead-ends; the repo has the reproducible recipe. Happy to answer questions.
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