mirror of
https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp.git
synced 2026-08-30 17:11:19 +02:00
Pranesh Gonegandla
2b5621094e
* CUDA: runtime GGML_CUDA_MMVQ_MAX to tune the mvq->MMQ decode crossover Add a runtime override of the mul_mat_vec_q -> MMQ batch crossover (default MMVQ_MAX_BATCH_SIZE). Lowering it routes batches above the threshold from the CUDA-core vector kernel to the int8 MMQ tensor-core path, which is faster once quantized decode becomes compute-bound at B>1 (measured +23-41% at B=8 on RTX 5090 for Q4_K dense, no low-batch loss). The value is parsed once and clamped to [1, MMVQ_MAX_BATCH_SIZE], since mul_mat_vec_q asserts ncols_dst <= that; invalid input warns and falls back to the default. The override is applied consistently in both the mul_mat_vec_q and MUL_MAT_ID dispatch paths. Default behavior unchanged. * Added Blackwell specific switch point, to reduce dependence on runtime env var. * Add per-HW switch point values for DGX Spark and removing runtime env var * Adding switch points for Ada, tested on RTX 4090 * Modifying DGX Spark numbers based on latest run and adding some comments and small functional changes relating to MoE * Reverting an unnecessary conditional * Update ggml/src/ggml-cuda/mmvq.cu --------- Co-authored-by: praneshgo <227579474+praneshgo@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Oliver Simons <osimons@nvidia.com>
llama.cpp
LLM inference in C/C++
manifesto / ggml / ops / maintainer PRs / compile times / lib llama API / llama-server REST API
Quick start
A few options to get llama.cpp installed on your machine:
- Visit https://llama.app and follow the instructions
- Run with Docker - see our Docker documentation
- Download pre-built binaries from the releases page
- Build from source by cloning this repository - check out our build guide
Once installed:
# Download and run a model directly from Hugging Face
llama cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF
# Launch OpenAI-compatible API server
llama serve -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF
|
|
|
Description
The main goal of llama.cpp is to enable LLM (and VLM) inference with minimal setup and state-of-the-art performance on
a wide range of hardware - locally and in the cloud.
- Plain C/C++ implementation without any dependencies
- Apple silicon is a first-class citizen - optimized via ARM NEON, Accelerate and Metal frameworks
- AVX, AVX2, AVX512 and AMX support for x86 architectures
- RVV, ZVFH, ZFH, ZICBOP and ZIHINTPAUSE support for RISC-V architectures
- 1.5-bit, 2-bit, 3-bit, 4-bit, 5-bit, 6-bit, and 8-bit integer quantization for faster inference and reduced memory use
- Custom CUDA kernels for running LLMs on NVIDIA GPUs (support for AMD GPUs via HIP and Moore Threads GPUs via MUSA)
- Vulkan and SYCL backend support
- CPU+GPU hybrid inference to partially accelerate models larger than the total VRAM capacity
The llama.cpp project is build on top of the ggml library.
Supported backends
| Backend | Target devices |
|---|---|
| BLAS | All |
| BLIS | All |
| CANN | Ascend NPU |
| CUDA | Nvidia GPU |
| HIP | AMD GPU |
| Hexagon [In Progress] | Snapdragon |
| IBM zDNN | IBM Z & LinuxONE |
| MUSA | Moore Threads GPU |
| Metal | Apple Silicon |
| OpenCL | Adreno GPU |
| OpenVINO [In Progress] | Intel CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs |
| RPC | All |
| SYCL | Intel GPU |
| VirtGPU | VirtGPU APIR |
| Vulkan | GPU |
| WebGPU | All |
| ZenDNN | AMD CPU |
Documentation
Tools
Development
- How to build
- Running on Docker
- Build on Android
- Multi-GPU usage
- Performance troubleshooting
- GGML tips & tricks
- XCFramework
- Completions
- Models
- Release process
Contributing
- Contributors can open PRs
- Collaborators will be invited based on contributions
- Maintainers can push to branches in the
llama.cpprepo and merge PRs into themasterbranch - Any help with managing issues, PRs and projects is very appreciated!
- Read the CONTRIBUTING.md for more information
Acknowledgements
- yhirose/cpp-httplib - Single-header HTTP server, used by
llama-server- MIT license - nothings/stb - Single-header image format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
- nlohmann/json - Single-header JSON library, used by various tools/examples - MIT License
- mackron/miniaudio - Single-header audio format decoder, used by multimodal subsystem - Public domain
- sheredom/subprocess.h - Single-header process launching solution for C and C++ - Public domain