[SwellJoe]

I said, "Like, DS4 (a 1-bit quantization of DeepSeek V4 Flash) runs at something like 9-13 tokens/second, with a loooong time to first token."

Which almost exactly matches the benchmark you just linked. Looks like it's possible to goose it to 15 tokens per second with a tiny context, but why would I want a giant model with a 2k context? DeepSeek is too big to be fast enough on a Strix Halo.

To be clear, if you think that's comfortable for interactive use, more power to you. But, I'm not waiting for that. I'll pay DeepSeek to host it for me. Their token prices are quite cheap and their cached tokens are even cheaper...and they have the most effective caching in the business, as far as I can tell. Even naively using the API you get 80-90% cached token rate. If you use Reasonix, you get ~98% cached token rate. I just built a feature for an app I'm working on for $0.10 for 20 minutes of work. Not bad at all.