How fast will Gemma 4 26B A4B feel on the A100 80GB (cloud)?

Gemma 4 26B A4B on the A100 80GB (cloud)

Gemma 4 26B A4B is a 25.81B-parameter mixture-of-experts model (3.8B active per token). At Q4_K_M it needs about 17.7 GB of memory. The A100 80GB (cloud) has 74 GB usable, so it fits entirely in memory. Expect about 329 tokens/sec (120–539), with the first token after 0.3 s for a short prompt. This estimate is interpolated from benchmarks of similar setups.

Speed by quantization

QuantizationFile sizeMemoryGenerationFirst tokenSource
Q4_K_M16.9 GBFits329 tok/s0.3 sDerived
Q8_026.9 GBFits208 tok/s0.3 sDerived
FP1650.5 GBFits111 tok/s0.3 sDerived

Gemma 4 26B A4B on other hardware

Other models on the A100 80GB (cloud)

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Estimates for a short prompt on a single device. Measured numbers come from community benchmarks (r/LocalLLaMA, localscore.ai and more); others are derived from similar setups or projected from specs. Open source on GitHub.