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Compatibility Report

Gemma 4 26B-A4B on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

Yes — RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell runs Gemma 4 26B-A4B excellently at Q8_0 — 279 tok/s. 96 GB VRAM with plenty of headroom.

Model Size

25.2B

Device VRAM

96 GB

Bandwidth

1800 GB/s

Quantization

Q8_0

Benchmarks

Performance by Quantization

OwnRig currently has one published compatibility entry for Gemma 4 26B-A4B on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell at Q8_0. This is the best supported pairing we can stand behind today.

QuantizationSpeedTTFTFits in VRAMRatingConfidence
Q8_0279 tok/s50ms✓ YesExcellentestimated

Notes

Q8_0

25.2B model. Q8_0 26.86GB on 96GB discrete_gpu.

About Gemma 4 26B-A4B

Gemma 4 26B-A4B (25.2B) is a chat, coding, reasoning, multi-purpose model. Mixture-of-Experts architecture: 25.2B total parameters but only 3.8B active per token (8 selected + 1 shared expert per layer, out of 128 total). Hybrid dense+sparse FFN design. Inference throughput closer to a 4B dense model; quality closer to a 27B dense model. 256K context window. Benchmarks: 88.3% AIME 2026, 82.6% MMLU Pro, 77.1% LiveCodeBench. All 25.2B weights must be loaded into VRAM despite sparse activation; fits on 24 GB GPUs at Q4_K_M. Apache 2.0 licensed.

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About NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has 96 GB at 1800 GB/s. Street price: $7,500.

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Estimate method: Estimated from MoE active params (3.8B), quantization, and device bandwidth with 0.65 efficiency factor. Reference hardware source: huggingface.co (2026-04-04)

Performance varies by driver version, inference engine, quantization method, context length, and system configuration. Figures shown are estimates based on community benchmarks and may not reflect your exact setup. Product names are trademarks of their respective owners. OwnRig is independent and not affiliated with any hardware or AI model provider.