Qwen3.6-35B-A3B · vLLM · NVFP4 + MTP · conc 16

status: done

Configuration

ModelQwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
CompanyAlibaba
FamilyQwen
Parameters35B / 3B (MoE)
EnginevLLM + MTP (speculative decoding)
Quant / precisionNVFP4
Why this quantconc-16 fine-grained point of the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B NVFP4 + native-MTP sweep — same stack as conc-1/8/32 (nvidia ModelOpt NVFP4 base on marlin + in-repo MTP head on triton). Traces the 8→32 region of the money chart (EXPERIMENTS.md
Downloadnvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4
Context window65536
Input modalitiestext, image, video (served text-only here)

Measured results

Prefill tok/s446.25
Decode tok/s433.28
Peak memory (GB)107.34 (system MemAvailable delta (10s sampling) — vLLM static KV (util 0.85) + MTP head)
Completed2026-07-01 12:54 +0800

Full run command

# conc-16 fine-grained point. Same NVIDIA DGX Spark MTP recipe as conc-1/8/32 — only --max-num-seqs differs.
scripts/bench-vllm-serving.sh nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 65536 16 1000 600 256 \
  --quantization modelopt --trust-remote-code --reasoning-parser qwen3 --moe-backend marlin \
  --speculative-config '{"method":"mtp","num_speculative_tokens":3,"moe_backend":"triton"}'
# 1000/1000 prompts (did NOT hit the 600 s cap; finished 590.6 s), 0 errors. ready after 440 s.

qwen3.6-35b-a3b Alibaba Qwen NVFP4 16-40B Spark recipe conc-16

Notes

conc-16 point of the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B NVFP4 + MTP sweep — fine-grained resolution for the money chart’s 8→32 region (EXPERIMENTS.md #13/#14). Same NVIDIA ModelOpt NVFP4 base (marlin) + in-repo MTP head (triton) as the published conc-1/8/32 rows; only --max-num-seqs changes.

  • Result (conc 16): prefill 446.25 / decode 433.28 tok/s aggregate; 1000/1000 prompts, 0 errors (a full-coverage measurement — did not hit the 600 s cap); peak mem 107.3 GB. Sits between conc-8 (289.1) and conc-32 (541.3) — the MTP decode curve is monotonic across the entire 1→32 sweep.
  • Acceptance holds ~constant: mean accept-len ~3.0 (2.96–3.06), avg draft acceptance ~65–69%, per-position 0.84 / 0.66 / 0.51 — indistinguishable from every other conc point. Workload-driven, not concurrency-driven, confirming the rule at the high-batch end too.
  • Completes the MTP line of the money chart: decode 93.9 (c1) → 161.2 (c2) → 232.4 (c4) → 289.1 (c8) → 433.3 (c16) → 541.3 (c32) tok/s, acceptance flat ~3.0/~67% throughout. Pair against the DFlash line (which peaks at conc-1 then decays under load) to locate the crossover.
  • TPOT median reads 0.0 — the usual qwen3 reasoning-parser client artifact; trust the aggregate decode tok/s and the in-engine SpecDecoding throughput.
  • Sweep siblings: -c1 · -c2 · -c4 · -c8 · maxctx/c32.