Gemma 4 26B-A4B · vLLM · NVFP4 + EAGLE3

status: done

Configuration

Modelgoogle/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it
CompanyGoogle
FamilyGemma
Parameters26B / 4B (MoE)
EnginevLLM + EAGLE3 (speculative decoding)
Quant / precisionNVFP4
Why this quantNVIDIA NVFP4 base (modelopt) + RedHatAI's official EAGLE3 speculator (RedHatAI/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-speculator.eagle3) — the EAGLE3 line of the crossover figure.
Downloadnvidia/Gemma-4-26B-A4B-NVFP4
Context window65536
Input modalitiestext, image (served text-only here)

Measured results

Prefill tok/s680.76
Decode tok/s596.32
Peak memory (GB)110.02 (system MemAvailable delta (10s sampling) — vLLM static KV reservation (util 0.85) + EAGLE3 head)
Completed2026-07-03 17:54 +0800

Full run command

VLLM_IMAGE=vllm/vllm-openai:nightly-aarch64 scripts/bench-vllm-serving.sh nvidia/Gemma-4-26B-A4B-NVFP4 65536 32 1000 900 256 \
  --speculative-config '{"model":"RedHatAI/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-speculator.eagle3","method":"eagle3","num_speculative_tokens":3}'
# 1000/1000 prompts (clean full run), 0 errors, 395.9s. ready after 311s. TTFT median 307.5 ms, TPOT median 49.6 ms, req thr 2.526/s.
# SpecDecoding: mean acceptance length 2.06 (1.89-2.20) · avg draft acceptance 35% (30-40%) · per-position ~0.57/0.32/0.17.

gemma-4-26b-a4b Google Gemma NVFP4 16-40B conc-32

Notes

Decode 596.32 tok/s aggregate at concurrency 32. NVFP4 + RedHatAI EAGLE3 speculator, conc 32, for the crossover figure.

  • Image (pinned): vllm/vllm-openai:nightly-aarch64 @ sha256:e414712fdc04… — the SINGLE image for all 24 cells of this figure. Ready after 311 s.
  • Workload: ShareGPT V3, concurrency 32. 1000/1000, 0 errors in 395.9 s (clean full run).
  • Throughput: decode 596.32 tok/s aggregate, prefill 680.76 tok/s. TTFT median 307.5 ms, TPOT median 49.6 ms, req throughput 2.526/s.
  • Spec-decode acceptance: mean acceptance length 2.06 (1.89-2.20) · avg draft acceptance 35% (30-40%) · per-position ~0.57/0.32/0.17 (num_speculative_tokens=3).
  • Memory: 110.02 GB = vLLM --gpu-memory-utilization 0.85 reservation, not the model footprint.