# Contributing Results

Benchmarks and configs are welcome. Support requests are out of scope.

## Result Rules

- Rows must be owner-measured on hardware the submitter operates.
- Cloud, vendor, review-site, or copied rows are rejected.
- `variant` is mandatory.
- `bandwidth_gbps`, `tdp_w`, and `pcie_lanes` are mandatory and must match the
  declared desktop/SFF variant.
- `vram_gb`, `memory_type`, and `bus_width_bit` are required metadata, but they
  do not identify desktop versus SFF. Desktop and SFF entries are both 24 GB
  GDDR7 ECC on a 192-bit bus.
- Desktop, SFF, and laptop rows are accepted but segregated by variant and never
  merged into desktop tables.
- Include enough metadata for another owner to repeat the run.
- Tag related Hugging Face model cards with `rtx-pro-4000`.

## Required Metadata

Use `templates/result-row.json` as the starting point.

Keep notes short but useful: backend flags, power method, whether the run was
served or local, and what else was stopped to isolate the GPU.

## Validation

Before submitting:

```bash
python validate.py data/results.jsonl
```

To validate a proposed row separately:

```bash
python validate.py path/to/proposed.jsonl
```

Rows with `source` other than `owner-measured` fail validation.