Stop Guessing Your vLLM Config: Benchmarking LLMs on Runpod - Chris Vela, Runpod

Most teams spin up a new open model with the default vLLM recipe and hope for the best. Runpod forward-deployed engineer Chris Vela shows how to choose configs from data instead, starting with the use case and concurrency, and demos BenchPod, a benchmarking dashboard built on vLLM that tests configs live without restarts. He runs Kimi K3 on a B300, shows how tuning max batch tokens cuts inter-token latency, and asks whether you need a frontier model at all. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:29 What Runpod does 1:32 Everyone's guessing at vLLM configs 2:53 Version and CUDA gotchas 3:48 BenchPod: benchmark