Need Advice: Llama.cpp Tensor Parallelism RPC vs Single Node Performance
I have a 5090 and a 4090 sitting on two different pcs. Right now I am running Gemma4 31B across a 10gbe link using RPC. I get about 28 tps on a fresh session, and scaling down to about 17 tps by 100k context.
I want to know if it's worth moving the 4090 to the same PC and what types of performance uplift I might see. I am using Tensor Parallelism not layer, self compiled llama on windows 11.
I get about 24-26 tps on the single 5090 running the q4 on new low context session, for reference.
Thanks.
Posted Jul 27, 2026, 7:18 AM UTC
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