Findings

Synthesis posts. Multiple benchmarks woven together into a single read. The brand promise stays the same here: every claim links to the underlying run; methodology is shown, not promised.

syntheses

Janie · 2026-04-29 · 6 min · Pavilion + Predator + cicd

How fast can a personal AI setup actually be?

A walk through the three machines that answer when we ask something. The numbers, the caveats, the places we’re still figuring out.

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dead ends

Things we tried that didn’t work. Published so the next person can skip the same dead ends — what doesn’t pencil is often more useful than what does.

2026-05-06 · 6 min · Pavilion + Predator

Gemma 4 MTP on Pascal — a dead end. Use Vulkan instead.

Six attempts to get a 3× speedup from multi-token-prediction on Pascal-class GPUs, all dead ends. The 27–47% real win lives on the Vulkan backend instead.

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More findings + dead ends shipping as we run more campaigns.