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Speeds up the CUDA pipeline on the RTX 5090: on voxconverse-dev, cuda goes from 39.0 to 24.9 s (1.57x) and cuda-fast from 20.4 to 12.8 s (1.59x). Over all 216 files, cuda DER goes from 7.0123 to 7.0119 with 2 RTTMs changed, and cuda-fast DER stays at 7.3674 with 1 RTTM changed.

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Each commit was measured end to end against the one before it, in interleaved runs over all 216 voxconverse-dev files:

Commit Scope cuda cuda-fast
Add RTX 5090 FP16 early trunk recipe 5090 39.0 → 35.0 s 20.4 → 18.3 s
Launch the next embedding batch before reading one all GPUs −0.8% −1.3%
Segment the next CUDA file during embedding all GPUs 34.6 → 34.2 s 18.0 → 17.5 s
Pair FP16 trunk taps into m16n8k16 on the 5090 5090 34.0 → 30.9 s 17.6 → 16.1 s
Run the whole 5090 trunk on FP16 at large batches 5090 31.0 → 27.3 s 16.0 → 14.2 s
Add FP16 Winograd trunk kernels for the RTX 5090 5090 27.0 → 25.7 s 14.0 → 13.2 s
Run 64-channel trunk layers on FP16 Winograd 5090 25.3 → 24.9 s 13.1 → 12.8 s
  • Host side, all GPUs: the embedding loop launches the next batch before it reads the current one. In concurrent mode, one worker segments the next file while the current file's last embedding batches run. Results and their order don't change.
  • RTX 5090 only: the recipe matches only cc 12.0 with 170 SMs and the RTX 5090 name. The new sm120 wideconv variant is bound by its exact cubin hash, so every other device, other cc 12.x GPUs included, keeps the sm80 variant. The sm75 and sm80 PTX and cubins are unchanged.
  • New sm120 kernels:
    • FP16 trunk taps paired into m16n8k16 products, which issue at the same rate as m16n8k8 on this card.
    • Fused FP16 Winograd F(2x2, 3x3) kernels for the 64-, 128- and 256-channel layers.
    • Weights whose Winograd transform could leave the FP16 range stay on the direct FP16 tiles.

Full benchmark suite on the RTX 5090

Both GPUs ran this branch. DER is the same on both GPUs for every dataset. RTFx is shown as 5090 / 4090.

Dataset Audio cuda DER cuda RTFx cuda-fast DER cuda-fast RTFx
VoxConverse dev 20.3 h 7.0% 2922x / 1912x 7.4% 5633x / 3646x
VoxConverse test 43.5 h 11.1% 2888x / 1859x 11.2% 5678x / 3618x
AMI IHM 18.7 h 17.0% 2919x / 1909x 17.4% 5791x / 3563x
AMI SDM 18.7 h 19.7% 2927x / 1791x 20.6% 5838x / 3754x
AISHELL-4 12.7 h 11.1% 2844x / 1866x 11.4% 5621x / 3534x
Earnings-21 39.3 h 9.7% 2864x / 1876x 9.2% 5667x / 3613x
ICSI 71.7 h 33.3% 2888x / 1937x 33.7% 5725x / 3708x
AVA-AVD 4.4 h 45.4% 3095x / 2075x 48.9% 5971x / 3927x
  • RTX 5090: driver 595.99.02, Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, 24 CPUs.
  • RTX 4090: Beam containers with 16 CPUs and 8 GiB of RAM, the same setup as the published rows.
  • Gain on the 4090: only the host-side changes apply there. On VoxConverse dev, run alternately with master in one container, cuda went from 39.4 to 38.2 s (−3.0%) and cuda-fast from 21.0 to 20.0 s (−4.8%), with identical RTTMs.
  • Other datasets: on the 4090 they are single runs on different hosts, so they range from 6% faster to 6% slower than the earlier published rows.

This branch also updates benchmarks/README.md and the README with these numbers.

Testing

  • GPU library tests pass on the RTX 5090, including the forced FP16 tests:
    • Half-io launches are bit-equal to the FP32-io path.
    • FP16 Winograd error stays within 3x RMS and 4x max of the direct FP16 error against FP32.
  • Some tests can't run on this machine:
    • Five embedding tests need SPEAKRS_CUDA_REF reference tensors that weren't available.
    • Two cuDNN tests need cuDNN, which isn't installed.
  • cargo xtask cuda-kernels check passes.
  • The sm75 and sm80 artifacts are byte-identical to master.
  • The existing sm120 kernels have identical SASS to the earlier sm120 build.
  • Only the RTX 5090 was measured. Other GPUs should keep their current kernel paths, but they haven't been run with this branch.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added tuned CUDA support for the NVIDIA RTX 5090, including FP16 and Winograd convolution options for supported workloads.
    • CUDA modes can prefetch the next file and overlap processing across consecutive files and embedding batches while preserving input order.
  • Improvements
    • Embedding downloads can run asynchronously, with automatic recomputation when FP16 output exceeds its supported range.
  • Documentation
    • Added RTX 5090 setup guidance and benchmark results, and updated RTX 4090 performance figures across supported datasets.

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The PR adds SM120 wide-convolution kernels and RTX 5090 CUDA selection. It also queues CUDA embedding downloads and overlaps segmentation with embedding during streamed CUDA inference. README and benchmark reports update RTX 4090 measurements and add RTX 5090 results.

Changes: RTX 5090 SM120 wide-convolution support

Layer / File(s) Summary
SM120 wide-convolution kernels
crates/speakrs-cuda-kernels/src/wideconv/h16.rs, crates/speakrs-cuda-kernels/src/wideconv/h16/wino.rs
SM120 stride-1 and stride-2 FP16 wide convolutions pair adjacent taps. New same-channel FP16 Winograd kernels cover 64-, 128-, and 256-channel shapes.
FP16 policy and kernel planning
src/inference/cuda/candidate.rs, src/inference/cuda/candidate/wideconv.rs, src/inference/cuda/candidate_tests/wideconv.rs, src/inference/cuda/embedding/dispatch.rs, src/inference/cuda/tuning.rs, src/inference/cuda/tuning/tests.rs
Kernel planning adds Winograd entries, weight thresholds, tier restrictions, launch geometry, and RTX 5090 shape and batch selection.
RTX 5090 recipe and device binding
src/inference/cuda/implementation/policy.rs, src/inference/cuda/implementation/policy/tests.rs, src/inference/cuda/implementation/driver/tests.rs, src/inference/cuda/implementation.rs, src/inference/cuda/implementation/production/wideconv.rs, src/inference/cuda/implementation/tests.rs
The measured recipe selects FP16 pins using the supplied policy. The production binding selects the SM120 artifact for the specified RTX 5090 configuration.
SM120 artifact integration and validation
crates/speakrs-ptx-sm120/src/lib.rs, src/inference/cuda/kernels.rs, src/inference/cuda/ptx/wideconv.manifest, xtask/src/commands/cuda_kernels.rs, src/inference/cuda/kernel_inventory_tests.rs, src/inference/cuda/tests/wideconv.rs, src/inference/cuda.rs, src/inference/cuda/fp16_range_tests.rs, docs/cuda.md, README.md
The build embeds and validates tier-specific Wideconv entries. Tests check Winograd output, kernel inventory, and tier selection. The CUDA recipe documentation and tested-GPU note include the RTX 5090.

CUDA streamed inference prefetch

Layer / File(s) Summary
Queued CUDA embedding batches
src/inference/cuda/embedding.rs, src/inference/embedding/cuda.rs, src/inference/embedding/cuda/tests.rs, src/inference/embedding.rs
CUDA embedding queues output downloads and alternates buffers for full batches. Waiting completes pending batches oldest first. Tests cover queued downloads across consecutive launches.
Prefetched CUDA stream processing
src/pipeline.rs, src/pipeline/concurrent.rs, src/pipeline/prefetch.rs, tests/cuda_pipeline.rs
CUDA stream processing runs segmentation on a worker while embedding the current file, then submits results in input order. The concurrent embedder starts a new batch before waiting for the oldest running batch.

RTX 4090 and RTX 5090 benchmark reports

Layer / File(s) Summary
Benchmark tables and recorded results
README.md, src/lib.rs, benchmarks/README.md, benchmarks/*.txt
The benchmark tables update RTX 4090 throughput and timing figures. They add RTX 5090 results and system details for VoxConverse and other datasets.

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  PipelineRunner->>SegmentationWorker: enqueue file audio for segmentation
  PipelineRunner->>CudaEmbedding: embed current file
  SegmentationWorker-->>PipelineRunner: return segmentation result
  PipelineRunner->>BatchPostProcessor: submit file artifacts in input order
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Comment on lines +235 to +246
if self.pending.is_some() {
return Err(InferenceError::MissingOutput {
context: "cuda multi-mask batch started with two batches unfinished",
});
}
// queue the running batch's download before anything below reuses its buffers,
// so the device runs straight on into this batch while the host waits for that
if let Some((values, running)) = self.running.take() {
self.session
.run(|runtime, state| state.batches.enqueue_download(runtime, &running))?;
self.pending = Some((values, running));
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Clear pending when a start fails. A recoverable error blocks later starts on the same handle.

start_multi_mask_audio_windows moves running into pending before its remaining fallible calls. Those calls can return Err and leave pending set. These calls are the two embed_multi_mask_audio_batch calls, check_multi_mask_counts, and the session.run launch. The guard at the top of the function then returns MissingOutput for every later start on that handle. A launch error can come from Batches::batch, which selects and creates the spare batch.

Reset pending on every Err return after the move. One option is to move the code after the move into a helper and clear pending when that helper fails.

The runner has the same exposure. If run_multi_mask_with returns early from hard_decode or start_batch while a batch runs, that batch stays in running. The next file's first start moves it into pending. If the same handle serves that file, its second start returns MissingOutput. Clear running and pending on that early-return path too.

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Summary

Adds an RTX 5090 recipe with paired FP16 products and FP16 Winograd kernels. It also overlaps embedding batches and starts segmentation of the next file sooner.

  • RTX 5090 inference uses paired FP16 and Winograd convolution paths.
  • CUDA embedding starts the next batch before reading the current one.
  • CUDA batch runs segment the next file while embedding the current one.

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sequenceDiagram
    participant Host
    participant Segmentation
    participant Embedding
    Host->>Segmentation: Queue current and next file
    Segmentation-->>Host: Current file windows
    Host->>Embedding: Launch batch A
    Host->>Embedding: Queue A download and launch batch B
    Embedding-->>Host: Read batch A
    Segmentation->>Segmentation: Start next file
    Embedding-->>Host: Read remaining batches
    Host->>Host: Submit current result in input order
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🟠 Major · Preserve CUDA batch bookkeeping when a wait fails. · cuda.rs:290-306

src/inference/embedding/cuda.rs:290-306
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Preserve CUDA batch bookkeeping when a wait fails.

wait_multi_mask_audio_windows removes pending or running before the fallible download. If the pending download fails, a newer batch can remain running while the pending batch is discarded. A later streamed call can then associate the discarded batch's rows with the newer RunningBatch, violating oldest-first ordering.

Restore the tuple on error. Make the download helpers borrow Launch so the tuple remains recoverable.

Suggested fix
-    fn download(&mut self, runtime: &CudaRuntime, launch: Launch) -> Result<Vec<f32>, CudaError> {
+    fn download(&mut self, runtime: &CudaRuntime, launch: &Launch) -> Result<Vec<f32>, CudaError> {
...
-        launch: Launch,
+        launch: &Launch,
         if let Some((mut values, pending)) = self.pending.take() {
-            let last = self
+            let result = self
                 .session
-                .run(|runtime, state| state.batches.finish_download(runtime, pending))?;
-            values.extend(last);
-            return embedding_rows(values);
+                .run(|runtime, state| state.batches.finish_download(runtime, &pending));
+            return match result {
+                Ok(last) => {
+                    values.extend(last);
+                    embedding_rows(values)
+                }
+                Err(error) => {
+                    self.pending = Some((values, pending));
+                    Err(error)
+                }
+            };
         }
-        let Some((mut values, running)) = self.running.take() else {
+        let Some((mut values, running)) = self.running.take() else {
             return Err(InferenceError::MissingOutput {
                 context: "cuda multi-mask batch is not running",
             });
         };
-        let last = self
+        let result = self
             .session
-            .run(|runtime, state| state.batches.download(runtime, running))?;
-        values.extend(last);
-        embedding_rows(values)
+            .run(|runtime, state| state.batches.download(runtime, &running));
+        match result {
+            Ok(last) => {
+                values.extend(last);
+                embedding_rows(values)
+            }
+            Err(error) => {
+                self.running = Some((values, running));
+                Err(error)
+            }
+        }
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Keep benchmark provenance statements consistent.

Lines 93-95 state that the VoxConverse pyannote rows are from earlier runs on the listed RTX 4090 configuration. This later note says that only AMI IHM and Earnings-21 pyannote rows are earlier runs. Remove Only or include VoxConverse so the comparison methodology is not contradictory.

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The 5090 had no measured recipe, so it ran the TF32 early trunk
default. A tune on the card timed FP16 wide tiles 1.25-2.3x faster
on the same-channel 32-channel layers at every batch and 1.07-1.4x
faster on the 64-channel layers from batch 4. The 128- and
256-channel layers stay on TF32 Winograd, which wins at batch 32.

The recipe matches only cc 12.0 with 170 SMs and the RTX 5090 name.
On all 216 voxconverse-dev files, Cuda drops from 39.0 s to 35.0 s
with DER unchanged at 7.0123 and 3 RTTMs changed; CudaFast drops
from 20.4 s to 18.3 s with identical RTTMs.
The multi-mask loop waited for each embedding batch, then staged and
launched the next, so the embedding stream sat idle for about 0.6 ms
per full batch while the host copied the output and staged the next
span. Now the next batch starts first: its launch queues the running
batch's output copy into pinned memory, and the wait syncs only that
copy.

Full batches alternate between two 32-chunk batches, so the earlier
batch keeps its own inputs for the FP16 range recompute, which a new
GPU test drives after the next batch has overwritten the shared
activations.

On an RTX 5090 with all 216 voxconverse-dev files, interleaved runs
were faster in every pair: Cuda by 0.8% and CudaFast by 1.3%, with
identical RTTMs.
A batch stream started each file's segmentation only after the previous
file's embedding finished, so every file began with the GPU mostly idle
while its first segmentation batch ran. In CUDA concurrent mode, one
worker now segments the files in order and takes the next file while
the current file's last embedding batches run. The bounded window queue
limits how far ahead it gets, so results and their order don't change.

On an RTX 5090 over voxconverse-dev, interleaved pairs went from 34.6
to 34.2 s for Cuda (4/4 pairs faster) and from 18.0 to 17.5 s for
CudaFast (3/3 pairs), with identical RTTMs.
On an RTX 5090, m16n8k16 FP16 products with FP32 accumulation issue at
the same rate as m16n8k8 ones, so they do twice the work per tensor
instruction. The h16 trunk kernels issued nine m16n8k8 products per
staged chunk and were tensor-pipe bound at batch 32. A new sm120
wideconv variant holds each even tap's fragments and issues them with
the next tap's as one m16n8k16 product: four k16 and one k8 product
per chunk.

The sm120 build compiles every wideconv kernel differently, so only
the RTX 5090 binds that variant, by its exact cubin. Other devices,
other cc 12.x GPUs included, keep the sm80 variant, whose PTX and
cubins are unchanged, and sm120 builds still embed it for them.

On voxconverse-dev the Cuda run went from 34.0 to 30.9 s and CudaFast
from 17.6 to 16.1 s. DER is unchanged and one of 216 RTTMs differs, by
0.003 points.
With the sm120 FP16 kernels doing twice the work per tensor
instruction, a tune times FP16 tiles ahead of TF32 Winograd on the
later trunk layers too: 1.15-1.35x at batch 32 for 128 channels and
1.1-1.15x for 256, and 1.07-1.5x on the stride-2 layers. The RTX 5090
recipe now runs the 32-channel layers, stride 2 included, on FP16 at
every batch, the 64-channel ones from batch 4, the 128-channel ones
from batch 8 and the 256-channel ones from batch 16. Below those
batches TF32 stays within about 10% or wins.

On voxconverse-dev the Cuda run went from 31.0 to 27.3 s and CudaFast
from 16.0 to 14.2 s. Cuda DER went from 7.0123 to 7.0112 with 5 of 216
RTTMs changed, the worst file by +0.038 points; CudaFast DER is
unchanged.
The 128- and 256-channel same-channel layers were the largest share of
the 5090 embedding trunk after the direct FP16 kernels reached the
tensor pipe's limit. Fused Winograd F(2x2, 3x3) on m16n8k16 FP16
products does 2.25x fewer multiplies with the same operand rounding as
the shipped one-product TF32 Winograd, and accepts the direct kernels'
half tensors and range word, so it slots in per layer.

The kernels exist only in the sm120 wideconv variant, which only the
5090 binding loads; xtask lets that bound top tier export entries the
lower tiers lack, so the sm75 and sm80 artifacts are unchanged and the
88 existing sm120 kernels keep identical SASS. Weights whose transform
could leave the FP16 range, devices without the sm120 variant and tune
files under that limit keep the direct FP16 tiles.

On voxconverse-dev the 5090 Cuda run went from 27.0 to 25.7 s (4 of 4
pairs) with DER 7.0112 to 7.0123 and 7 of 216 RTTMs changed, the worst
file by +0.14 points; CudaFast went from 14.0 to 13.2 s with DER
unchanged and one RTTM changed.
Add 64-channel instantiations of the RTX 5090 FP16 Winograd kernels
and select them for the same-channel layer2 convolutions, which spend
more GPU time than the 128- and 256-channel layers combined. The
residual epilogue now prefetches the residual into L2 during the last
input-channel chunk and stages a half residual through shared memory
in coalesced 16-byte pixels.

At batch 32 the 64-channel layers run 1.05-1.2x faster than the
direct FP16 tiles and the 256-channel residual layer 1.09x faster.
On voxconverse-dev Cuda goes from 25.3 to 24.9 s with DER 7.0123 to
7.0119 and 4 of 216 RTTMs changed, and CudaFast from 13.1 to 12.8 s
with DER unchanged. Only the sm120 artifacts change; the other
kernels' SASS is identical.

The FP16 Winograd accuracy test compares the 64-channel shape against
the FP32 Winograd kernel, since that shape has no spatial tiles.
List the full-suite CUDA and CUDA Fast results on an RTX 5090 next to
the RTX 4090 rows, with the 5090 hardware and run counts. The raw
result files get matching blocks. The 5090 rows include pipeline and
kernel changes the 4090 rows predate, which the page says.
Rerun the full suite on RTX 4090 containers with the same 16 cores
and 8 GiB at this branch's code, so the 4090 and 5090 rows share one
speakrs version. DER and its parts are unchanged on every dataset.

On VoxConverse dev, run interleaved with master in one container,
cuda went from 39.4 to 38.2 s and cuda-fast from 21.0 to 20.0 s with
identical RTTMs. The single runs on other datasets landed on different
hosts and drivers and range from 6% faster to 6% slower than the
earlier rows.
Only the sm75/sm80 stride-2 pin test uses Fp16Policy, so the
module-level import was unused under cuda-sm120 alone and failed
clippy with -D warnings.
cargo rdme generates README.md from src/lib.rs, so the refreshed RTX
4090 numbers and the RTX 5090 profile mention must live there for
the readme check to pass.
A multi-mask run that returns early, from a failed start or from the
runner, can leave running or pending batches on the embedding model.
The next recording's second start then fails with MissingOutput, so
one failed file breaks later files on the same pipeline. Drop that
bookkeeping when run_multi_mask fails; the batch buffers stay with
the handle.
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praveenperera merged commit f60a067 into master Oct 23, 2026
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