DeepSeek-V4-Flash on AMD gfx90a: Correctness Recovery and Inference Performance Engineering

📅 2026-09-14
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研究解决了DeepSeek-V4-Flash在AMD Instinct MI250 GPU上推理的正确性和性能问题,通过修正权重布局、优化执行路径和采用多种加速技术提高了解码和预填充性能。
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We present the enablement, correctness recovery, and performance engineering of DeepSeek-V4-Flash inference on AMD Instinct MI250 GPUs using the gfx90a/CDNA2 architecture. The system integrates native safetensors loading, tensor and expert parallelism, FP4 routed mixture-of-experts computation, FP8 dense projections, sparse attention, HIP graph execution, and OpenAI-compatible serving within SGLang. An initially fast execution path was found to be numerically incorrect because of a routed-expert W2 layout mismatch. We identify the output permutation, repair the weight layout at load time, and establish fixed-token and hash-based correctness checks before further optimization. On the corrected path, decode performance is improved through packed FP4 weights, INT8 activation quantization, CDNA2 dot-product instructions, peer-read all-reduce, and topology-aware kernel geometry. Prefill is accelerated using CDNA2 MFMA kernels, improved packed-weight reuse, reduced sparse-attention overhead, larger chunks, and retuned expert sorting. On four MI250 GCDs, TP4/EP1 native autoregressive decode reaches approximately 74.5 tok/s, while a 4,604-token prompt reaches 2.061-2.062 s TTFT, or approximately 2,234 input tok/s. The results show that efficient DeepSeek-V4-Flash inference on CDNA2 is limited not only by memory bandwidth, but also by FP4 execution-format mismatch, low-M utilization, and per-layer synchronization costs.
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correctness recovery
inference performance
layout mismatch
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Correctness Recovery
Performance Engineering
FP4 Weight Packing
INT8 Activation Quantization
CDNA2 Instructions
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