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Patrick HughesAug 31, 2026 • 4 min read
Ollama Load Time Can Hide a Fast Local LLM
My RTX 5090 run spent 43.48 seconds on model load and 0.17 seconds on output. Split wall time before...
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Patrick HughesAug 26, 2026 • 5 min read
49W Average Hid a 338W Burst on Gemma 26B
Gemma 4 26B Q4_K_M averaged 49 W on a long RTX 5090 run and peaked at 338 W. Keep both watt numbers ...
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Patrick HughesAug 27, 2026 • 5 min read
Preflight Local AI Before You Benchmark a Model
My local AI test stopped before model load because the runtime could not build. This preflight keeps...
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Patrick HughesSep 1, 2026 • 5 min read
One model logged 14.5 and 6,178 prompt tokens a second
gemma4:26b read 53 prompt tokens at 14.5 tok/s and 4,470 at 6,178.9 on the same RTX 5090 run set. Pr...
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Patrick HughesAug 28, 2026 • 5 min read
Your Benchmark Row Never Saved the Driver Version
I audited seven RTX 5090 benchmark files on 2026-08-27. Not one records the GPU driver version. Here...
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Patrick HughesAug 28, 2026 • 5 min read
Your Local LLM CSV Needs a Schema Version
I audited seven RTX 5090 benchmark CSVs and found four header widths, three power schemas, and no sc...
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Patrick HughesAug 29, 2026 • 5 min read
A 32 GB GPU Still Needs Host RAM Headroom
My RTX 5090 had 32 GB of VRAM ready, but my local policy stopped Ollama at 7.02 GiB of free host RAM...
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