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Beam-1.0-501B-A23B EXL3 3 bpw with vLLM on 2× DGX Spark

Beam-1.0-501B-A23B EXL3 3 bpw with vLLM on 2× DGX Spark: 28.3 tok/s according to github.com (dataset as of Nov 3, 2026).

by bertholomus

28.3tok/sEveryday

1 request, prose prompt (~2K), with DFlash2 (per recipe)

Source: github.com
Intelligence (original model) · Artificial Analysisno independent value

≤ 3 bit: quantization may cost quality

Engine

Engine
vLLM TP2 (image beam-exl3-gb10 via gb10/build-image.sh: Reflection arm64 Beam vLLM image + vllm-exl3 d3cfd394 with Diffbot Beam patch, ExLlamaV3 5be88657 for sm_121, kernels xmoe_dense/xmoe_do8/x8rh/f8rh), DFlash2 drafter (3 draft tokens)
Quantization
EXL3 3 bpw (routed experts 3 bit, attention/dense MLPs 6 bit, embedding/norms/router/lm_head BF16; ~90 GiB per node)
Model family
Beam-1.0-501B-A23B
Context
655,360
Parameters
501B MoE / 23B aktiv
Creator
bertholomus
GitHub stars
8
Repo updated
Oct 29, 2026

Measurements

Every sourced value of this recipe, each with its condition and source. Bars relative to the largest value in the group.

Decode · 1 request

  • Everyday (decode)28.3 tok/scontext ~2K tok · VLLM-Spalte der Vergleichstabelle (gb10-Lane mit ausgelieferten Defaults, 655K-Fenster), 1 Stream, Prosa ~2K, T=0, Median aus 3 Läufen, DFlash2; eigene vLLM-Tabelle (400K-Fenster): 28.9 tok/s [28.1-30.2] Source 
  • Peak (decode)33.4 tok/scontext ~2K tok · VLLM-Spalte, Decode, 1 stream, code ~2K, Median aus 3 Läufen, DFlash2; 4 Streams Aggregat 61.0 tok/s Source 

Prefill by context

  • ~46K tok1,362 tok/sVLLM-Spalte, cold prefill, prose ~46K, frische Prompts (kein Prefix-Cache-Treffer), Median aus 3 Läufen Source 

Time to first token

Shorter is better.

  • Prompt not stated440 msVLLM-Spalte, short chat, first token, idle server (0.44 s) Source 

What you need

Hardware
2 × NVIDIA DGX Spark (GB10)
Engine
vLLM TP2 (image beam-exl3-gb10 via gb10/build-image.sh: Reflection arm64 Beam vLLM image + vllm-exl3 d3cfd394 with Diffbot Beam patch, ExLlamaV3 5be88657 for sm_121, kernels xmoe_dense/xmoe_do8/x8rh/f8rh), DFlash2 drafter (3 draft tokens)
Context
655,360 tokens

Notes

What matters before you rebuild it.

  • ≤ 3 bit: quantization may cost qualityAt 3 bit and below the model may answer noticeably worse than the original. The intelligence number refers to the original.
  • Custom kernel required
  • tool-calling

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