If you have a dual-socket CPU, each socket may have dedicated RAM assigned to it. This can lead to performance penalties when a processor accesses memory from the “wrong” memory bank. Below is a simple benchmark and an explanation of how to utilize the full bandwidth properly.
To get DeepSeek running on your PC you will need enough RAM, and it is quite easy with llama.cpp. Below step by step guide and results.
Time to time I need “quick and dirty” benchmark to check performance. Sometimes using CPU Bench from CPU-Z or AIDA, but there is quicker way with Power Shell…
In this “weekend” experiment I’ll write large file (16 GB in my case), then read it back with different buffer size and threads and check the performance.