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Kimi K2.5

Moonshot AI · 2 reports

As of 25 Oct 2026, Kimi K2.5 1000B · 32B active at 3-bit on the hardware it is most run on, with the median of runs that kept part of the model in system RAM (one device, one request):

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Reported performance for Kimi K2.5

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Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
generation:
5.8 tokens/s
prompt processing (prefill):
10.7 tokens/s
quant:
Q2_K_XL (GGUF)
kv:
f16

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is input throughput, not time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

User reports Kimi K2.5 at 5.85 t/s generation and 10.67 t/s prompt processing on eight Tesla P40 24GB cards. Setup is llama.cpp with a Q2_K_XL GGUF (349.01 GiB, 2.92 BPW) at 262144 context, f16 KV cache, flash attention on, experts offloaded to CPU. User says smaller MoE models reach over 20 t/s and Kimi K2.5 gives 5+ t/s; a second request measured 5.47 t/s generation and 7.48 t/s prompt processing.

Oct 9, 2026
NVIDIA hardware
prompt processing (prefill):
471.4 tokens/s
quant:
IQ3_M (GGUF)

Reported by the source; GPU count, offloading and concurrent requests can change these figures. Prompt-processing speed is input throughput, not time to first token. Check the full setup before comparing.

User reports Kimi K2.5 IQ3_M at 471.40 t/s prompt processing on an RTX 5090, with 80 GB offloaded and the card at 500W. User also tested GLM 5.1 IQ4_NL at 574.98 t/s prompt processing with 70 GB offloaded. The user compares these results with an RTX 6000 PRO MaxQ that has a shunt mod.

Jul 12, 2026

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Reported configurations

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Model / hardwareQuant / engineReported contextGeneration
Kimi K2.5 1000B (32B active)
8× NVIDIA Tesla P40 24GB
Q2_K_XL
llama.cpp
262,1445.8 tokens/s

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Reports of Kimi K2.5 name llama.cpp (2 reports), as of 25 Oct 2026.