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A100 40GB local LLM benchmarks: 19 measured configs

19 measured local-LLM configs on NVIDIA A100 40GB; fastest 14B+ model Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 124 tok/s. Official specs, every number linked to its source.

Snapshot 2026-10-15 · 394 configs on AI boxes and 423 on GPU cards · 123 models. Every number is generated from the tracker snapshot and linked to where it was measured; nothing here is typed by hand.

Quick answers

What is the fastest model on A100 40GB?
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B at 124 tok/s single-stream (UD-Q4_K_M, llama.cpp/cuda), source last checked 2026-10-14. Models under 14B parameters are left out of this answer. source
How many configs does TokenMark track for A100 40GB?
19 single-stream configs across 6 models, each linked to the README or model card it came from.

Measured single-stream configs on NVIDIA A100 40GB

ModelQuantBackendDecodeContextTrustSource
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BUD-Q4_K_Mllama.cpp/cuda124 tok/s8192Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.5-35B-A3BQ4_K_Mllama.cpp/cuda122.8 tok/s8192Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BUD-Q4_K_XLllama.cpp/cuda122.1 tok/s8192Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BUD-Q5_K_Mllama.cpp/cuda120.9 tok/s8192Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.6-35B-A3BUD-Q6_Kllama.cpp/cuda118.6 tok/s8192Verified (ran it)source
gemma-4-26B-A4B-itUD-Q8_K_XLllama.cpp/cuda99.9 tok/s8192Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.8-27BFP8vllm (speculative decode, mtp-4)81.2 tok/s32768Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.8-27BFP8vllm (speculative decode, mtp-2)76.5 tok/s32768Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.8-27BINT4vllm (speculative decode, mtp-4)72.2 tok/s65536Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.8-27BINT4vllm (speculative decode, mtp-2)69 tok/s65536Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.8-27BINT4vllm62.3 tok/s (prefill 3142.5)65536Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.8-27BUD-Q4_K_Mllama.cpp/cuda45.5 tok/s8192Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.8-27BUD-Q4_K_XLllama.cpp/cuda43.5 tok/s8192Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.6-27BQ4_K_Mllama.cpp/cuda42.4 tok/s8192Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.5-27BQ4_K_Mllama.cpp/cuda42.4 tok/s8192Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.8-27BFP8vllm41.2 tok/s (prefill 2830.4)65536Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.8-27BUD-Q6_K_XLllama.cpp/cuda34.7 tok/s8192Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.8-27BQ8_0llama.cpp/cuda34.2 tok/s8192Verified (ran it)source
Qwen3.6-27BQ8_0llama.cpp/cuda34.1 tok/s8192Verified (ran it)source

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