Speed test matrix
gemma-4-26B-A4B-it on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition 96GB
vllm · 0.30.1rc1.dev452+g73a583112 · BF166 contexts (8K–251K) × 8 concurrency levels (1–128) · prefill at 8K, 16K, 32K, 64K, 128K, 251K, 256K
Hardware
- Type
- Discrete GPU
- GPU
- RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition
- VRAM
- 96 GB
- OS
- linux
Engine
- Engine
- vllm
- Version
- 0.30.1rc1.dev452+g73a583112
- Quantization
- BF16
- Backend
- cuda
- Repository
- github.com/vllm-project/vllm
- Build
- cuda-13.2
- Commit
73a5831127a9
Run
- Served model
- gemma
- Revision
- main
- Benchmark tool
- llm-inference-bench v0.7.6
- Decode test
- Fixed duration
- Prefill mode
- Measured during decode warm-up
- Time per measurement
- 30 s
- Max output
- 4,096 tokens
Launch command
env MAX_JOBS=2 FLASHINFER_NVCC_THREADS=1 TORCHINDUCTOR_COMPILE_THREADS=1 "$HOME/env_rtxpro6k-redhatai-vllm-73a5831127a9d2b8/bin/vllm" serve RedHatAI/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it --served-model-name gemma --trust-remote-code --tensor-parallel-size 1 --reasoning-parser gemma4 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser gemma4 --max-model-len 262144 --gpu-memory-utilization 0.82 --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000 --api-key <redacted> --async-scheduling
Prefill
prompt tok/s by context length8K context21.5K381 ms TTFT
16K context19.5K833 ms TTFT
32K context14.8K2,182 ms TTFT
64K context9,9316,501 ms TTFT
128K context5,94521,697 ms TTFT
251K context3,36775,074 ms TTFT
256K context3,31077,896 ms TTFT
Sustained decode
total tok/s · rows are context length, columns are simultaneous requests| Context | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 32 | 64 | 128 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8K | 121.350 ms TTFT | Looped | Looped | 472.3120 ms TTFT | Looped | 1,064.5307 ms TTFT | Looped | Over capacity |
| 16K | Looped | Looped | Looped | Looped | Looped | Looped | Over capacity | Over capacity |
| 32K | Looped | Looped | Looped | Looped | Looped | Over capacity | Over capacity | Over capacity |
| 64K | Looped | Looped | Looped | Looped | Over capacity | Over capacity | Over capacity | Over capacity |
| 128K | Looped | 132.2566 ms TTFT | Looped | Over capacity | Over capacity | Over capacity | Over capacity | Over capacity |
| 251K | 58.51,004 ms TTFT | Looped | Over capacity | Over capacity | Over capacity | Over capacity | Over capacity | Over capacity |
Looped: the model kept repeating the same text, so the benchmark discarded this measurement. Over capacity: not run because this many requests at this context would exceed the server's KV cache.
TTFT is measured after the benchmark warms the server's prompt cache, so it mostly excludes prefill.
All measurements
Latencies are medians. Total tok/s is output across all simultaneous requests.| Phase | Context | Requests at once | Status | Total tok/s | Per request tok/s | TTFT | Time between tokens | Average active requests | Completed requests | Output tokens | Measured for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prefill | 8K | 1 | Valid | 21.5K | — | 381 ms | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Prefill | 16K | 1 | Valid | 19.5K | — | 833 ms | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Prefill | 32K | 1 | Valid | 14.8K | — | 2,182 ms | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Prefill | 64K | 1 | Valid | 9,931.0 | — | 6,501 ms | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Prefill | 128K | 1 | Valid | 5,945.0 | — | 21,697 ms | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Prefill | 251K | 1 | Valid | 3,367.0 | — | 75,074 ms | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Prefill | 256K | 1 | Valid | 3,310.0 | — | 77,896 ms | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 8K | 1 | Valid | 121.3 | 121.6 | 50 ms | 8.2 ms | 1.0 | 0 | 3,639 | 30.0 s |
| Sustained decode | 8K | 2 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 8K | 4 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 8K | 8 | Valid | 472.3 | 60.0 | 120 ms | 16.7 ms | 8.0 | 0 | 14,167 | 30.0 s |
| Sustained decode | 8K | 16 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 8K | 32 | Valid | 1,064.5 | 34.3 | 307 ms | 29.2 ms | 32.0 | 0 | 31,935 | 30.0 s |
| Sustained decode | 8K | 64 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 8K | 128 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 16K | 1 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 16K | 2 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 16K | 4 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 16K | 8 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 16K | 16 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 16K | 32 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 16K | 64 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 16K | 128 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 32K | 1 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 32K | 2 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 32K | 4 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 32K | 8 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 32K | 16 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 32K | 32 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 32K | 64 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 32K | 128 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 64K | 1 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 64K | 2 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 64K | 4 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 64K | 8 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 64K | 16 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 64K | 32 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 64K | 64 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 64K | 128 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 128K | 1 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 128K | 2 | Valid | 132.2 | 66.2 | 566 ms | 15.1 ms | 2.0 | 0 | 3,965 | 30.0 s |
| Sustained decode | 128K | 4 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 128K | 8 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 128K | 16 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 128K | 32 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 128K | 64 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 128K | 128 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 251K | 1 | Valid | 58.5 | 58.7 | 1,004 ms | 17.0 ms | 1.0 | 0 | 1,756 | 30.0 s |
| Sustained decode | 251K | 2 | Looped | — | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | — |
| Sustained decode | 251K | 4 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 251K | 8 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 251K | 16 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 251K | 32 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 251K | 64 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Sustained decode | 251K | 128 | Over capacity | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Looped: the model kept repeating the same text, so the benchmark discarded this measurement. Over capacity: not run because this many requests at this context would exceed the server's KV cache.