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Gemma 4 26B-A4B on NVIDIA DGX Spark

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33.9tok/s
1.08sttft
2.6kprefill
llama.cpp b15-ee445f9Q4_K_Mspec-decodingJul 6, 2026

Run configuration

nodes
1
batch size
concurrency
1
context
10240
prompt / output
2036 / 256

Metrics

decode tok/s
33.9
prefill tok/s
2.6k
ttft
1.08s
total tok/s
31.2
inter-token
30ms
e2e latency
8.41s
req/s
0.122
peak memory
26.1 GB
avg power
41.5 W
energy/req
340.8 J
temperature
0
draftAcceptanceRate
0.179

Reproduce

~/Dev/llama.cpp/build/bin/llama-server -m ~/models/gguf/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-UD-Q4_K_M.gguf -c 10240 --parallel 1 -ngl 99 -fa on --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080 -md ~/models/gguf/gemma-4-assistant-F16.gguf --spec-type draft-mtp --spec-draft-n-max 16 --spec-draft-n-min 1
python3 bench/harness.py bench/configs/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it--spec-draft.json --rows-out data/benchmarks/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it.json

spec-decoding profile: greedy (temp 0) with google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-assistant (0.42B, F16, converted locally from google safetensors) as draft, draft-max 16. Speedup is workload-dependent (acceptance rate in extraMetrics).