llamaperf

Gemma 4 26B (4B active)

on NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti · ik_llama.cpp

Tone: negativeNVIDIA hardware
Oct 8, 2026
Throughput
6.9 t/s gen · 2181.2 tokens/s prompt processing (prefill)Prompt processing measures input prefill speed; it does not tell you the time to first token.
Quant
Q4_K_XL (GGUF)
KV cache
q8_0
VRAM reported
16 GB

Summary

User reports Gemma 4 26B-A4B at 6.86 t/s generation and 2181.18 t/s prompt processing on an RTX 5070 Ti with ik_llama.cpp. Setup is ik_llama.cpp with Q4_K_XL GGUF and q8_0 KV cache, 30 MoE layers offloaded to CPU, 8192-token prompt and 128-token generation. Upstream llama.cpp on the same hardware and model reaches 30.10 t/s generation and 577.00 t/s prompt processing, making ik_llama.cpp about 4.4x slower for generation despite being 3.8x faster for prompt processing. Disabling CUDA graphs, using q4_0 KV cache, or keeping the last 4 MoE layers on GPU did not resolve the generation slowdown.