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Advancing the Frontier of AI Inference

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Latest results.

New benchmarks from the lab. Published with configurations, measurements, and methodology.

  1. Output throughputtokens/s · 64 concurrent requests3,822Backboard1,750SGLang

    2.18×

    Gemma 4: 2.18× the output throughput of SGLang

    output throughput vs SGLang

    Gemma 4 12B at BF16 on one RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU, with 1K-token prompts and 64 concurrent requests.

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  2. Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Up to 12.8× higher agent interactivity

    p90 interactivity vs SGLang FP8

    Backboard at BF16 versus the published SGLang FP8 baseline on 8×H100. The largest p90 streaming-rate gain occurred at one active session.

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    12.8×

    p90 interactivitytokens/s per user at 1 session · areas to scaleBackboard BF16209.0SGLang FP816.3
  3. 44.4×

    Time until the answer startsEach bar loads until the model starts replying · median, 64 requests at once

    44.4× faster than vLLM

    Qwen3.8-27B: More output across every tested workload

    faster median time to first token than vLLM

    Higher output throughput than vLLM and SGLang across all eight tested combinations of input length and concurrency on one RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU.

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Internally measured results across distinct test configurations. See each study for methodology, baseline details, and limitations.

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