What effect, if any, does a system’s CPU speed have on GPU inference with CUDA in llama.cpp?

What effect, if any, does a system’s CPU speed have on GPU inference with CUDA in llama.cpp?
How does the choice of Operating System affect image generation performance in Stable Diffusion?
With 2023 at a close, we wanted to look back at the sales trends we saw for CPU, GPU, storage, and OS.
How does performance compare across a variety of consumer-grade GPUs in regard to SDXL LoRA training?
How does performance compare across a variety of professional-grade GPUs in regard to SDXL LoRA training?
AMD has published a guide outlining how to use Microsoft Olive for Stable Diffusion to get up to a 9.9x improvement in performance. But is that enough to catch up to NVIDIA?
NVIDIA has released a TensorRT extension for Stable Diffusion using Automatic 1111, promising significant performance gains. But does it work as advertised?
In DaVinci Resolve 18.6, Blackmagic is claiming up to a 4x improvement in Neural Engine performance for AMD GPUs, and a 2x improvement for NVIDIA. Is this a true claim, or a matter of cherry-picked results that won’t impact most users?
Blender expands AMD GPU support with HIP-RT integration. What is HIP-RT, and how much does it impreove rendering times?
Cinebench 2024 is with with new features and expanded compatibility. We look into what these features are and what this update means for benchmarking.