Best setup local LLM found for a 5090 (llama.cpp fork + turboquant)
450k context on 32GB VRAM using turboquant KV cache compression.
Run a 120B-parameter MoE (60 GB) on a 12 GB phone. CPU-only, lossless, on stock llama.cpp
Runs 60GB models on 12GB phones by streaming experts from flash, not RAM.
Mobile AI developers, edge computing engineers
llama.cpp · MLC LLM · Mediapipe Tasks
450k context on 32GB VRAM using turboquant KV cache compression.
Found llama.cpp loading models twice in RAM — fixed with host_ptr, 74% reduction.
Local LLM translation when Argos Translate and Ollama wrappers already exist.
2x prefill speedup on 12k+ token contexts by treating GPUs like a production line.
Panama FFM beats JNI for in-process llama.cpp - no sidecar, no HTTP, no native install.
Finally one CLI for Ollama, llama.cpp, and vLLM instead of three separate tools.