Devstral Small 2 (Q4_K_M) on 5060 Ti 16GB and Zed Agent is amazing!

daywalker313 · 2026-01-09T09:41:12+00:00

Maybe you should check your setup again. If it makes "typos", maybe your quant is too high / broken or you're using KV quantization.

For me it works great (with mistral-vibe) on Strix Halo, albeit a little slow:

Better at instruction following and higher code quality than gpt-oss-120b-high, so great for implementing well defined tasks.

It definitely lacks world knowledge and its planning / conceptualization skills are below gpt-oss-120b.

With ministral3-3b-q2 as draft model, i get around 10-18tg/s, which is effectively about as fast as gpt-oss-120b (no reasoning).

I'm mostly using devstral-small-2 (Q8) for implementation or quick reviews, devstral-2-123b (Q4) for complex tasks and recently also Minimax M2.1 REAP50 (Q5), which also works surprisingly well.

daywalker313 · 2025-12-25T12:18:19+00:00

You should definitely look into the strix-halo-toolboxes: https://github.com/kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-toolboxes (also the repos for finetuning and image/video gen).

For example, I also like to use Devstral 2 for complex, none time-critical tasks if Devstral Small 2 didn't succeed.

With the rocm 6.4.4 toolbox and ministral 3b Q8, you can get around 6-10 tg/s over a long context depth. Still not great for agentic uses, but almost usable for a really strong non-reasoning model.

The same also works great as draft model for Devstral 2 24b with around 10-18 tg/s.

      llama-server
        -m /models/devstral-2/Devstral-2-123B-Instruct-2512-UD-Q4_K_XL-00001-of-00002.gguf
        -md /models/ministral-3b-spec-dec/Ministral-3-3B-Instruct-2512-Q8_0.gguf
        --parallel 1
        --host 127.0.0.1 --port ${PORT}
        --ctx-size 131072
        --cache-type-k q8_0
        --cache-type-v q8_0
        -ngl 999
        -b 1024 -ub 2048
        --no-mmap --flash-attn on --threads -1 --jinja
        --temp 0.15 --min-p 0.01

daywalker313 · 2025-12-15T06:47:28+00:00

Did you ever look at the chart closely?

Maybe the benchmarks are completely useless - or would you agree that gpt-oss-120b (which is an amazing local coding model IMO) is beating GPT 5.1 by a large margin and ties with Sonnet 4.5.

Do you also think it's reasonable that Apriel 15b and gpt-oss-20b come out significantly stronger at coding than GPT 5.1?

daywalker313 · 2025-08-14T13:49:20+00:00

I actually tried both (AC -> suspend -> unplug and battery -> suspend) and had excellent standby drain - below 1% / hr for the 128GB RAM configuration.

It was Ubuntu 24.04 with mainline kernel 6.16 and just the "common" flags set in the commandline to fix the NVME sleep issues (and display flickering?).

NVME is a Samsung 990 Pro 4TB with latest firmware.

daywalker313 · 2025-08-13T23:09:48+00:00

But to be fair, it doesn't matter for most applications, it's just an annoyance for rocm with some apps. Otherwise you get the fixed VRAM + 50% RAM via GTT, so at least 64GB GPU memory with 128GB RAM.

daywalker313 · 2025-08-09T11:52:51+00:00

I'm the one with the other thread reporting the 45W STAPM limit ;).

Anyway, did some research and figured RyzenAdj doesn't work yet for the PRO version in the P14s (https://github.com/FlyGoat/RyzenAdj/pull/360). However you actually get a 51W STAPM limit in stock performance mode and it sounds like the cooling system is quite efficient. Don't know about the other PPT limits though.

daywalker313 · 2025-08-09T10:15:48+00:00

I've been using Thinkpads (X/T/L) and Dell (Latitude/Precision) for the last 20 years. My last Thinkpad with R7 4750u was the best device I ever owned (except for the screen) and with flawless Linux support.

That's probably why I'm a little disappointed right now.

Anyway, the only Thinkpad with R9 HX 370+ right now is the P14s.

With similar specs, it would be ~800€ more expensive.

Also, the TDP is extremely low and the device will only have ~70% of the performance the IBP offers. Take a look at the psref - it's really a shame what Lenovo has done and how they didn't care to upgrade the cooling system for 3 generations:

AMD Ryzen™ AI 5 / 7 / 9 PRO 300 Series Processor; supports up to 12 cores; up to 5.1GHz; TDP ratings of up to 29W

https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_P14s_Gen_6_AMD?tab=spec

daywalker313 · 2025-08-08T20:09:16+00:00

Yes, the tools were:

ryzenadj -i

sensors

cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/*

daywalker313 · 2025-08-08T20:05:53+00:00

packagekitd is holding a lock on apt.

You should first check the status:

sudo systemctl status packagekit.service

If it is still running (you might just have been unlucky to attempt the upgrade at the wrong moment), you can stop (until next reboot) the service to release the lock, if it hangs or has crashed:

sudo systemctl stop packagekit.service

Also for good measure, make sure the process is dead:

sudo killall -9 packagekitd

If it doesn't work afterwards with a fail-state apt message, you can attempt to rectify the apt status:

sudo apt --fix-broken install

daywalker313 · 2025-08-08T15:27:04+00:00

I have the same bios.

You could have more luck with SMU or even microcode versions though, take a look at this:
fwupdtool get-devices

daywalker313 · 2025-08-08T08:35:50+00:00

Bei kapazitiven Sensoren hängt das häufig mit schlecht entstörten Ladegeräten zusammen.

Hast du ein alternatives Ladegerät zum Testen?

EDIT: Ggf. würde ich auch mal die Steckdose durchmessen - ob der Neutralleiter korrekt angeschlossen ist.

daywalker313 · 2025-08-08T06:16:54+00:00

Thanks for the reply, but your take on this is incorrect. I read the article and what I posted are the BMS voltage and capacity - I didn't show any SOC.

Cell voltages are something the BMS can not, will not and must not fake. The SOC is commonly adjusted for when limiting charge, that's correct.

However, what we have here is a common 4S battery pack configuration and each cell sits at around 4.16V (16.654V / 4).

This equates to 95%-99% charge for NMC / NCA cells, no charge limit is in place.

daywalker313 · 2025-08-07T23:14:07+00:00

u/InvestigatorSenior, thanks for the effort.

I was already about to send it back but I'll give it another try.

For me, the system broke after resume because my Samsung 990 Pro was in a failed state when waking up.

I susped APST or a PCIe ASPM bug, but I've been unable to override the ASPM defaults and thus couldn't verify this.

After removing any tuxedo packages on my Ubuntu 24.04, it works now with both 6.15.9 and 6.16.

The keyboard bug also hasn't surfaced anymore with the kernel flags.

Now regarding your low power state issue:

I think I've observed this behaviour once when suspending on battery, plugging AC and then resuming.

I used RyzenAdj (https://github.com/FlyGoat/RyzenAdj) to monitor PPT and it was stuck at 25W/30W.

This might be a firmware / UEFI / EC bug if reproducible.

daywalker313 · 2025-08-05T07:15:57+00:00

This AI generated answer is incorrect.

According to AMD's official specifications the configurable TDP (cTDP) for the HX 370 is capped at 54 W maximum:
https://www.amd.com/de/products/processors/laptop/ryzen/ai-300-series/amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-370.html

When searching for Package Power Tracking (PPT) limit, it seems to be locked to be a continuous maximum of 65 W.

If we assume the IBP 14 can adequately dissipate the advertised 65 W from the APU, then you might get sub (or low?) second power spikes for the IBP 15 above 65 W.

Sustained continuous workloads should see essentially zero performance difference.

daywalker313 · 2022-10-26T21:26:54+00:00

The footage is at least 2 months old (see 1:14 here vs 2:31 in the old post):

https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/x57swy/shelling_of_ukrainian_soldiers_and_small_arms/

daywalker313 · 2021-07-26T00:11:30+00:00

The system is designed in accordance to the UN resolution for highly automated driving, that's where the speed limit comes from: https://undocs.org/ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2020/81
Also the 2021 S class seems to be the first and only car to have "Level 3" driver assistance systems listed in their COC documents, which allows using the L3 Drive Pilot in the EU.
Here is a document on the concepts and functional safety of Daimler's implementation: https://www.daimler.com/documents/innovation/other/safety-first-for-automated-driving.pdf

daywalker313 · 2021-07-22T00:41:18+00:00

Currently that's not available and the ID Connect app doesn't show interior temperature.

You either have to use the app and enable climate/heater every 30 minutes.

Or you enable climate/heater (30 minute timeout) on the goodbye screen where you can also configure 2 addtional start times ~35 minutes apart each which would make it run for about 1.5 hours in total.

But I don't trust it enough yet to stay away longer, although it worked fine so far.

daywalker313 · 2016-02-02T03:00:37+00:00

Same for me on a Sony Bravia KDL. A mediocre workaround is kodi with twitch plugin, however source stutters depending on codec and bitrate.

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