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Yes they are saying batch size 1 for the benchmarks, but they aren't doing batch size 1 in prod (obviously).

I don't think that is obvious. If your use case demands lowest latency at any cost, you might run batch size 1. I believe replit's new code model (announced about a month ago) runs at batch 1 in prod, for example, because code completions have to feel really fast to be useful.

With TensorRT-LLM + in-flight batching you can oversubscribe that one batch slot, by beginning to process request N+1 while finishing request N, which can help a lot at scale.

I'm not sure about TensorRT, but in llama.cpp there are seperate kernals optimized for batching and single use inference. It makes a substantial difference.

I suppose one could get decent utilization by prompt processing one user while generating tokens for another.

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