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2x Speed with WSL

·2026.04.16 11:13

Key point

On an RTX 5080·64GB Windows 11 setup, Llama.cpp was about 2x faster than LM Studio.

Details

On an RTX 5080, 64GB RAM, Windows 11 setup, feeling dissatisfied with the speed of LM Studio, I installed Windows WSL and built Llama.cpp myself.

The models tested were Gemma 4 26B Q8 and Qwen 3 Coder Next unsloth Q4, and on the same hardware, Llama.cpp turned out to be about 2x faster than LM Studio.

  • LM Studio scored higher on satisfaction, but Llama.cpp was faster
  • The WSL + manual compilation approach boosted the perceived performance
  • An anecdote hoping that LM Studio will offer the same level of speed

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