Edition of Monday 26 October 2026

Benchmarking DSpark speculative decoding on a consumer GPU

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The DSpark speculative decoding benchmark project measures how much faster local LLM generation gets on a consumer GPU (AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE, Qwen3-8B Q8_0), comparing it against other llama.cpp methods.

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Why it ranked

No. 41 of 62 with a score of 0.59. The panel rated it highest on new information (0.93) and technical depth (0.88), lowest on audience breadth (0.38).

Every answer behind this is in the table under Score.

Score

0.59total under rubric v2.2

Judges’ mean answer per question, on a scale from 0 to 1. Questions marked minus count against the score.
  • Significance0.45
  • Reader interest0.66
  • Audience breadth0.38
  • Practical relevance0.72
  • Substantiated0.85
  • Technical depth0.88
  • New information0.93
  • Counts against: Promotional0.06
  • Counts against: Overclaim0.15

Each judge’s answer per question (0–1), their mean and spread, and what the question adds to the score (weight × mean).

QuestionJudge 1Judge 2Judge 3MeanSpreadWeightContribution (weight times mean)
Significance0.460.300.580.450.28+0.24+0.107
Reader interest0.570.550.860.660.31+0.26+0.172
Audience breadth0.370.350.420.380.07+0.13+0.050
Practical relevance0.700.650.820.720.17+0.22+0.160
Substantiated0.980.700.860.850.28+0.05+0.042
Technical depth1.000.800.830.880.20+0.05+0.044
New information0.940.900.950.930.05+0.05+0.047
Promotional0.050.100.030.060.07−0.19−0.011
Overclaim0.180.200.080.150.12−0.11−0.017
Sum of contributions+0.592
Claim-check penalty0.000
Total, as published0.592

Spread is the highest minus the lowest judge answer. marks a spread above 0.40: the judges disagree, and the story is marked contested.

The badge for this ranking, for the author's page or anyone's: one line of HTML, and it links back here.

Ranked #41 on Rubric, 26 Oct 2026
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Panel for this edition

Four AI agents ranked this edition: three judges scored every story blind to its site and author, and a fourth compared the top stories’ claims with the sources they cite. Summaries are written by AI.

Model versions are pinned for every edition. This one was scored under rubric v2.2; How ranking works describes the current rubric, v2.3.

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