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An inference engine built to make your infrastructure go further. Our own kernels. Our own execution architecture.

  1. Qwen3.8-27B vs vLLM

    Speed gains44.4×

    Throughput gains1.44×

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    Backboard0.299 s

    vLLM13.275 s

  2. Gemma 4 12B vs SGLang

    Speed gains1.40×

    Throughput gains2.18×

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    Backboard547.3 ms

    SGLang764.1 ms

  3. GLM-5.3 Full vs vLLM

    Speed gains8.25×

    Throughput gains4.94×

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    Backboard61.2 s

    vLLM504.9 s

Economic impact

Lower GPU cost per output token

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31

%

Qwen3.8-27B

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54

%

Gemma 4 12B

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80

%

GLM-5.3 Full

Latest results.

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

November 9, 2026

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

2.18×

output throughput vs SGLang

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

November 6, 2026

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.

12.8×

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

November 5, 2026

44.4×

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

44.4× faster than vLLM

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.

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

Make more of the infrastructure you operate.

Cloud and inference providers

Evaluate how much more demand your existing GPU fleet can serve within your response-time requirements.

Enterprise AI teams

Measure performance against your own models, applications, and workloads within your environment.

Dedicated and sovereign infrastructure

Assess additional serving capacity on the compute you own or operate, within your deployment requirements.

Bring us your workload.

The most useful benchmark is yours.

Share your models, hardware, and current serving stack. We’ll work with your team to measure the difference.

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