#2814 Community benchmark: RTX Pro 4000 Blackwell, qwen3.8-flash-next Unsloth Q8_0

Description

# Community benchmark on NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell

Measured on 2026-10-16 with `tools/strata_bench.py` (suite 1, 3 runs per test, medians with ranges). Speeds are the engine's own timings; first-token times are measured by the client over HTTP. Speed only: no correctness check was run.

## Hardware and software

- GPU and VRAM: NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell, 24 GiB VRAM
- CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6138 CPU @ 2.00GHz (60 cores, 60 threads); installed RAM: 220.5 GiB; storage: not measured
- OS: Linux 6.12.0-211.49.1.el10_2.x86_64; GPU driver: 580.105.08; CUDA: 13.0
- Strata: project 0.1.44.1, commit 296b59d2; engine 0.1.44.1
- Background workloads and power limits: not recorded

## Model and configuration

- Model and quantization: qwen3.8-flash-next-unsloth-q8_0
- Context: 131072 tokens; parallel slots: 1
- Settings: the install's own configuration, unchanged; thinking off for the suite; temperature 0

```text
strata --pack unsloth-q8_0 --native Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Q8_0-00001-of-00006.gguf --expert-profile expert-profile.bin --expert-cache auto --prefill auto --spec 4 --mtp rt --max-context 131072 --kv int8 --ple-io ram --kv-resident 32768 --vision --vram-reserve-mib 700 --pcie-frac 0.20 --spec-min-p 0.50 --pool-workers 39 --adapt-every 1 --adapt-swaps 160 --adapt-decay 0.97
```

Environment of the config: `STRATA_ROUTE_TAIL_SKIP=0`

## Method

Run by `python tools/strata_bench.py` against the HTTP API of a Strata server (started by the benchmark from the install configuration); model loading is not timed. One warm-up chat and a 1K prompt are discarded first. Every prompt starts with a unique tag, so the conversation cache cannot help the fresh-prompt tests.

- short chat: the three questions of `tools/ab_engine.py`, up to 100 new tokens, 3 runs
- 4K / 16K prompts: generated word lists sized by a calibration request, 24 new tokens, 3 fresh prompts each
- agent session: system prompt and four tools, then 5 turns that each add about 1500 words of a project file and continue from the model's own earlier answers (the way agent clients resend a conversation), 64 new tokens per turn, 3 sessions; the cache numbers come from the answer's usage (`cached_tokens`) and timings (`prompt_n`)
- concurrency (when run): N requests sent at the same moment, total tokens over the wall time of the burst, latency over all requests

## Results

| Configuration | Actual prompt tokens | Reused tokens | Generated tokens | Runs | Prompt tok/s median and range | Decode tok/s median and range | TTFT seconds median and range |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- | --- | --- |
| short chat | 46 (43-51) | 0 | 100 (100-100) | 9 | not measured | 14.6 (12.2-18.4) | 2.27 (1.90-2.64) |
| 4K prompt, fresh | 4019 (4019-4019) | 0 (0-0) | 24 cap | 3 | 436.1 (426.9-436.6) | not measured | 9.29 (9.29-9.51) |
| 16K prompt, fresh | 16058 (16058-16058) | 0 (0-0) | 24 cap | 3 | 849.1 (834.0-849.9) | not measured | 19.01 (18.99-19.36) |
| agent session, follow-up turns | 14559 (14546-14580) at the last turn | see below | up to 64 | 3 | see below | 16.3 (11.9-24.9) | 9.45 (9.18-9.57) |

Ranges are the lowest and highest of the runs; `Runs` counts requests that returned a token.

### Agent session (conversation cache)

Cache hit over the follow-up turns: 68.7 % (68.6-68.7); earlier-turn tokens read again per session: 3 (2-74) (earlier turns that the cache did not hold; the 13728 (13728-13729) new tokens of the files are read once); first turn (nothing cached) first token: 5.36 s (5.20-5.45).

| Turn (run 1) | Prompt tokens | Reused | Read | Prompt tok/s | First token (s) | Decode tok/s |
| ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 0 | 609 | 0 | 609 | 113.3 | 5.448 | 9.0 |
| 1 | 3741 | 621 | 3120 | 333.4 | 9.444 | 13.4 |
| 2 | 5274 | 3734 | 1540 | 166.0 | 9.364 | 13.8 |
| 3 | 8718 | 5337 | 3381 | 358.2 | 9.55 | 16.4 |
| 4 | 11644 | 8781 | 2863 | 303.6 | 9.557 | 24.9 |
| 5 | 14580 | 11681 | 2899 | 310.0 | 9.467 | 15.5 |

Per-request data: `results.json`. Engine log lines from the start: `engine-log-excerpt.txt` (when this run started the server).

## Correctness and limitations

Not measured: this is a speed suite. The conversation uses the model's own replies, so token counts differ a little between runs. Machine details come from the server, `nvidia-smi`/`rocm-smi` and the OS; background load and power limits are not recorded. Total time of the suite: 396 s.