GB200 NVL72 FP8: MTP vs Off Speculative Decoding
Speculative decoding comparison of MTP versus Off on GB200 NVL72 FP8 (NVIDIA Blackwell) running DeepSeek R1. Throughput, cost, and interactivity differences across LLM workloads. Use the chart controls below to switch sequences and metrics — same interactions as the main inference chart.
MTP acceptance-rate implementations differ across inference engines. Points from different engines are not directly comparable on the same curve — throughput and cost at matched interactivity may reflect engine-level differences rather than pure speculative decoding gains. Interpret cross-engine comparisons with caution.
Near the low end of the 47–130 tok/s/user interactivity band, at 68 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1 (GB200 NVL72 FP8): MTP runs 6008 tok/s/GPU at $0.10/M tokens, Off runs 1500 at $0.48/M. MTP is 372% cheaper per token; MTP delivers 300% more tok/s/GPU. Gains from speculative decoding vary by workload; short-output prompts tend to benefit less.
At 89 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1 (GB200 NVL72 FP8), MTP delivers 5149 tok/s/GPU at $0.12 per million tokens; Off delivers 461 tok/s/GPU at $1.33. MTP is 1019% cheaper per token; MTP delivers 1016% more tok/s/GPU. Speculative decoding accepts draft tokens to reduce per-token latency — gains vary by workload and prompt distribution.
MTP posts 4430 tok/s/GPU for $0.14 per million tokens at 110 tok/s/user on DeepSeek R1 (GB200 NVL72 FP8); Off posts 257 tok/s/GPU for $2.64. MTP is 1815% cheaper per token; MTP delivers 1624% more tok/s/GPU. Draft-token acceptance rates determine whether speculative decoding helps or hurts at a given concurrency level. (Numbers reflect this URL's pinned 8k/1k · fp8 workload — changing sequence or model updates both the table and chart; the table stays pinned to this page's precision, so precision toggles in the controls affect the chart only.)
| Metric | Interactivity (tok/s/user) | Interactivity (tok/s/user) | Interactivity (tok/s/user) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Throughput (tok/s/gpu) | MTP:6007.8Off:1500.1 | MTP:5148.6Off:461.2 | MTP:4429.8Off:257.0 |
| Cost ($/M tok) | MTP:$0.102Off:$0.481 | MTP:$0.119Off:$1.335 | MTP:$0.138Off:$2.643 |
| tok/s/MW | MTP:2860844Off:714355 | MTP:2451705Off:219612 | MTP:2109415Off:122359 |
| Concurrency | MTP:~666Off:~131 | MTP:~368Off:~5 | MTP:~333Off:~17 |
Inference Performance
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