llama.cpp has released version b11382, expanding hardware compatibility with a focus on non-NVIDIA accelerators. The update adds ROCm 10.0 support for Linux x64 and Windows x64, allowing AMD Radeon GPUs to run local models natively. Additionally, new binaries for Linux arm64 enable inference on Snapdragon devices utilizing Adreno GPUs and Hexagon NPUs. Existing builds for CUDA 12/13, Vulkan, and OpenVINO remain available, though KleidiAI support on macOS Apple Silicon has been temporarily disabled.
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This release tackles the notorious memory hunger of long-context inference for Qwen4-exp models by halving indexer score memory. The optimization works by computing head scores in place rather than materializing separate tensors, a change that significantly reduces VRAM pressure during heavy workloads. Beyond memory efficiency, b11372 expands hardware coverage with CUDA 13 support and Vulkan tiling for the lightning indexer. It also adds ROCm 10.0 binaries, keeping AMD users in step with NVIDIA's latest driver ecosystem. The result is a leaner runtime that handles extended contexts without hitting out-of-memory errors as quickly.
This release significantly tightens llama.cpp’s integration with Intel’s OpenVINO backend, specifically targeting Mixture of Experts (MoE) models like Qwen3.5 and Gemma-4. By fusing MoE routing and GDN normalization operations, prefill throughput on Arc GPUs jumps from 66 to over 1,600 tokens per second, effectively removing a major bottleneck for local inference on Intel hardware. The update also fixes critical stateful execution bugs that previously caused crashes or incorrect axis handling during decoding. This makes OpenVINO a far more viable option for running complex MoE architectures on consumer-grade Intel GPUs without relying on NVIDIA CUDA.
This release resolves a critical crash in Mamba SSM inference when batch cells aren't contiguous. By gathering recurrent states into a single reserve that covers every split, the engine avoids illegal graph reallocations under strict scheduling modes. It’s a quiet but essential fix for anyone running non-standard sequence lengths or complex batching logic with stateful models.
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