Wait...there's another way to make AMD's R9700 faster for Local AI?
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Wait...there's another way to make AMD's R9700 faster for Local AI? I've been referncing Radiance + vLLM. But Paiton published an interesting Qwen3.8-27B comparison on 1x Radeon AI PRO R9700 on Reddit. Paiton isn't just another LLM server. It's a compiler/runtime that generates highly optimized AMD GPU kernels and plugs them into regular vLLM. Same model. | Same GPU. | Different execution path. In Paiton's matched test against Radiance + DFlash2 ... 🚀 314.5 vs 200.3 aggregate tps ➡️ +57% ⚡ Median TTFT ... 195 ms vs 6,586 ms ➡️ ~97% lower 🔥 Weighted serial decode ... ➡️ +22% Then they
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