README: GB10 (DGX Spark) row (#136) — 0.50 tok/s warm, matmul-bound, unified memory; confirms #76 fix on aarch64 (TF 32/32 + greedy 20/20 on NEON and CUDA sm_121)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 (16C/32T, avx512-vnni) · native Linux · 121 GB · Samsung 9100 PRO **PCIe Gen5** · RTX 5090 (28 GB expert tier, 1475 pinned) ([#120](https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri/issues/120)) | **11.48 GB/s** O_DIRECT | `MTP=0 DIRECT=1 PIPE_WORKERS=16 PREFETCH=1` | **1.23 tok/s** · MTP-off wins disk-bound · fastest x86 datapoint yet | | Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 (16C/32T, avx512-vnni) · native Linux · 121 GB · Samsung 9100 PRO **PCIe Gen5** · RTX 5090 (28 GB expert tier, 1475 pinned) ([#120](https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri/issues/120)) | **11.48 GB/s** O_DIRECT | `MTP=0 DIRECT=1 PIPE_WORKERS=16 PREFETCH=1` | **1.23 tok/s** · MTP-off wins disk-bound · fastest x86 datapoint yet |
| Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo, 16C/32T Zen5, avx512-vnni) · Arch Linux · 128 GB unified LPDDR5x · SK hynix P41 PCIe 4.0 ([#124](https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri/issues/124)) | — | `DIRECT=1 PIPE=1 --topp 0.7` · auto-pin | 0.06 cold → **1.10 tok/s** sustained · first Strix Halo / gfx1151 datapoint (unified memory: no discrete VRAM tier) | | Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (Strix Halo, 16C/32T Zen5, avx512-vnni) · Arch Linux · 128 GB unified LPDDR5x · SK hynix P41 PCIe 4.0 ([#124](https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri/issues/124)) | — | `DIRECT=1 PIPE=1 --topp 0.7` · auto-pin | 0.06 cold → **1.10 tok/s** sustained · first Strix Halo / gfx1151 datapoint (unified memory: no discrete VRAM tier) |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 185H (16C/22T, avx-vnni) · **native Windows 11, no WSL** · 32 GB · Crucial P3 QLC NTFS · RTX 5070 Ti (unused) ([#128](https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri/issues/128)) | — | int8 MTP head · **with [#131](https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri/pull/131) (pipe + RAM fixes), warm cache, no GPU** | 0.03 cold → **0.5 tok/s** warm (~7-prompt warmup) · cache-warming on native Windows once the portability blockers are fixed — stock main hung on the `\r\n` READY sentinel before #131 | | Intel Core Ultra 9 185H (16C/22T, avx-vnni) · **native Windows 11, no WSL** · 32 GB · Crucial P3 QLC NTFS · RTX 5070 Ti (unused) ([#128](https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri/issues/128)) | — | int8 MTP head · **with [#131](https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri/pull/131) (pipe + RAM fixes), warm cache, no GPU** | 0.03 cold → **0.5 tok/s** warm (~7-prompt warmup) · cache-warming on native Windows once the portability blockers are fixed — stock main hung on the `\r\n` READY sentinel before #131 |
| Dell Pro Max GB10 (DGX Spark: Grace 10×X925 + 10×A725, **aarch64 i8mm/sve2**) · Linux · 121 GB unified LPDDR5x · Dell OEM 4 TB NVMe · GB10 sm_121 ([#136](https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri/issues/136)) | **5.58 GB/s** O_DIRECT (NVIDIA-OEM unit in #76 was 10.74 — same platform, different SSD) | int8 MTP head · warm cache | 0.21 cold → **0.50 tok/s** warm · hit 83% · MTP 73% (3.20 tok/fw) · **matmul-bound** (matmul 130 s vs disk 58 s) — unified memory, CUDA placement tier neutral; the lever here is an i8mm compute kernel, not placement |
Takeaways: with 24 GB of RAM the engine auto-caps the expert cache to 2 slots/layer, so decode stays cold even on a disk 22.7× faster than the dev box — **on small-RAM machines the RAM cap, not the disk, is the binding constraint**, exactly as the table above predicts; `--topp 0.7` alone bought a clean 1.6× end-to-end speedup. The M5 Max datapoint lands right on the table's second row: **~1 tok/s of a 744B model on a laptop SSD** — and its 14 GB/s disk shifts the bottleneck back to RAM budget and kernels. The Framework 13 rows are the cache thesis proven end-to-end on one machine: 0.29 → 0.37 tok/s (hit 28% → 66%, speculation finally engaging at 52% acceptance) just by giving the cache its RAM — int8 MTP head + a bigger cap + the learned pin. The cap part is now automatic (cap auto-raise, 2026-07-10). The 9950X pair is the cleanest bottleneck experiment yet — same machine, same history, only the disk swapped: ×5.8 disk bandwidth bought ×2.9 tokens, and the profile **flipped from 66% disk to 57% matmul**. But the crossover depends on the CPU kernel: the 9800X3D row ([#101](https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri/issues/101)) shows that with the OMP hot-team tuning on, the AVX-512 CPU matmul is fast enough that even a **10 GB/s NVMe stays disk-bound** — and there the **CUDA expert tier buys ≈ 0%**, because the CPU already matches the 5090 on expert matmul. The GPU tier earns its VRAM only when the CPU is the weak link, not by default. (Honest correction from #101: an earlier version of that report ran with the OMP tuning off, which manufactured a false matmul-bound crossover and a false +14% for CUDA — neither survived a clean re-run.) Takeaways: with 24 GB of RAM the engine auto-caps the expert cache to 2 slots/layer, so decode stays cold even on a disk 22.7× faster than the dev box — **on small-RAM machines the RAM cap, not the disk, is the binding constraint**, exactly as the table above predicts; `--topp 0.7` alone bought a clean 1.6× end-to-end speedup. The M5 Max datapoint lands right on the table's second row: **~1 tok/s of a 744B model on a laptop SSD** — and its 14 GB/s disk shifts the bottleneck back to RAM budget and kernels. The Framework 13 rows are the cache thesis proven end-to-end on one machine: 0.29 → 0.37 tok/s (hit 28% → 66%, speculation finally engaging at 52% acceptance) just by giving the cache its RAM — int8 MTP head + a bigger cap + the learned pin. The cap part is now automatic (cap auto-raise, 2026-07-10). The 9950X pair is the cleanest bottleneck experiment yet — same machine, same history, only the disk swapped: ×5.8 disk bandwidth bought ×2.9 tokens, and the profile **flipped from 66% disk to 57% matmul**. But the crossover depends on the CPU kernel: the 9800X3D row ([#101](https://github.com/JustVugg/colibri/issues/101)) shows that with the OMP hot-team tuning on, the AVX-512 CPU matmul is fast enough that even a **10 GB/s NVMe stays disk-bound** — and there the **CUDA expert tier buys ≈ 0%**, because the CPU already matches the 5090 on expert matmul. The GPU tier earns its VRAM only when the CPU is the weak link, not by default. (Honest correction from #101: an earlier version of that report ran with the OMP tuning off, which manufactured a false matmul-bound crossover and a false +14% for CUDA — neither survived a clean re-run.)