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Recommended Model and Feature Matrices

Although vLLM TPU’s new unified backend makes out-of-the-box high performance serving possible with any model supported in vLLM, the reality is that we're still in the process of implementing a few core components. For this reason, until we land more capabilities, we recommend starting from this list of stress tested models and features below.

We are still landing components in tpu-inference that will improve performance for larger scale, higher complexity models (XL MoE, +vision encoders, MLA, etc.).

If you’d like us to prioritize something specific, please submit a GitHub feature request here.

Recommended Models

These tables show the models currently tested for accuracy and performance.

Models

Model Type Unit Test Correctness Test Performance Test
Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Multimodal ✅ ✅ ✅
google/gemma-3-27b-it Text ✅ ✅ ✅
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Text ✅ ✅ ✅
meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Text ✅ ✅ ✅
Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B Text ✅ ✅ ✅
Qwen/Qwen3-32B Text ✅ ✅ ✅
Qwen/Qwen3-4B Text ✅ ✅ ✅
Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct Text ✅ ✅ ✅
Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Text ✅ ✅ ✅
google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it Multimodal ✅ ✅ ❌
google/gemma-4-31B-it Multimodal ✅ ✅ ❌
openai/gpt-oss-120b Text ✅ ✅ ❓
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 Text ✅ ❓ ❓
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 Text ✅ ❓ ❓
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR Multimodal ❓ ❓ ❓
Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct Multimodal ❓ ❓ ❓
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct Multimodal ❓ ❓ ❓
Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B Multimodal ❓ ❓ ❓
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2 Text ❓ ❓ ❓
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1 Text ❓ ❓ ❓
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2 Text ❓ ❓ ❓
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale Text ❓ ❓ ❓
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 Text ❓ ❓ ❓
moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking Text ❓ ❓ ❓
openai/gpt-oss-20b Text ❓ ❓ ❓
zai-org/GLM-5 Text ❓ ❓ ❓
Model Type Unit Test Correctness Test Performance Test
google/gemma-4-31B-it Multimodal ✅ ✅ ✅
google/gemma-3-27b-it Text ✅ ✅ ✅
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Text ✅ ✅ ✅
meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Text ✅ ✅ ✅
Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B Text ✅ ✅ ✅
Qwen/Qwen3-32B Text ✅ ✅ ✅
Qwen/Qwen3-4B Text ✅ ✅ ✅
Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct Text ✅ ✅ ✅
Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Text ✅ ✅ ✅
Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Multimodal ✅ ✅ ❌
Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B Embedding ✅ ✅ ❓
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 Text ✅ ✅ ❓
openai/gpt-oss-120b Text ✅ ✅ ❓
google/gemma-4-E2B-it Multimodal ✅ ❌ ❓
google/gemma-4-E4B-it Multimodal ✅ ❌ ❓
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 Text ✅ ❓ ❓
google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it Multimodal ❌ ❓ ❓
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR Multimodal ❓ ❓ ❓
Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct Multimodal ❓ ❓ ❓
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct Multimodal ❓ ❓ ❓
Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B Multimodal ❓ ❓ ❓
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2 Text ❓ ❓ ❓
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1 Text ❓ ❓ ❓
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2 Text ❓ ❓ ❓
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale Text ❓ ❓ ❓
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 Text ❓ ❓ ❓
moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking Text ❓ ❓ ❓
openai/gpt-oss-20b Text ❓ ❓ ❓
zai-org/GLM-5 Text ❓ ❓ ❓

Embedding Models

Model Type UnitTest Accuracy/Correctness Benchmark
Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Multimodal ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct Multimodal ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct Multimodal ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B Multimodal ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR Multimodal ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it Multimodal ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
google/gemma-4-31B-it Multimodal ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
Qwen/Qwen3-32B Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
Qwen/Qwen3-4B Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2 Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 Text ✅ Passing ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1 Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2 Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
google/gemma-3-27b-it Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 Text ✅ Passing ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
openai/gpt-oss-120b Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ❓ Untested
openai/gpt-oss-20b Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
zai-org/GLM-5 Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
Model Type UnitTest Accuracy/Correctness Benchmark
Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct Multimodal ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
Qwen/Qwen3-Omni-30B-A3B-Instruct Multimodal ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct Multimodal ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B Multimodal ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-OCR Multimodal ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it Multimodal not enough HBM not enough HBM not enough HBM
google/gemma-4-31B-it Multimodal ✅ Passing ✅ Passing not enough HBM
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
Qwen/Qwen3-32B Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
Qwen/Qwen3-4B Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct Text not enough HBM not enough HBM not enough HBM
Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Text not enough HBM not enough HBM not enough HBM
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Math-V2 Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 Text not enough HBM ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1 Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2 Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
google/gemma-3-27b-it Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Text ✅ Passing ✅ Passing ✅ Passing
moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 Text not enough HBM ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
openai/gpt-oss-120b Text not enough HBM not enough HBM ❓ Untested
openai/gpt-oss-20b Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested
zai-org/GLM-5 Text ❓ Untested ❓ Untested ❓ Untested

Recommended Features

This table shows the features currently tested for accuracy and performance.

Feature Flax Torchax Default
async scheduler ✅ ✅ ✅
Chunked Prefill ✅ ✅ ✅
DCN-based P/D disaggregation ✅ ✅ ✅
LoRA_Torch ✅ ✅ ✅
Out-of-tree model support ✅ ✅ ✅
Prefix Caching ✅ ✅ ✅
Single Program Multi Data ✅ ✅ ✅
Speculative Decoding: Ngram ✅ ✅ ✅
KV Cache Offload ✅ ❌ ✅
Multimodal Inputs ✅ ❌ ✅
Speculative Decoding: Eagle3 ✅ ❌ ✅
hybrid kv cache ❓ ❓ ❓
multi-host ❓ ❓ ❓
runai_model_streamer_loader ❓ ❓ ❓
sampling_params ❓ ❓ ❓
Single-Host-P-D-disaggregation ❓ ❓ ❓
structured_decoding ❓ ❓ ❓
Feature Flax Torchax Default
async scheduler ✅ ✅ ✅
Chunked Prefill ✅ ✅ ✅
DCN-based P/D disaggregation ✅ ✅ ✅
KV Cache Offload ✅ ✅ ✅
LoRA_Torch ✅ ✅ ✅
Prefix Caching ✅ ✅ ✅
Single Program Multi Data ✅ ✅ ✅
Speculative Decoding: Eagle3 ✅ ✅ ✅
Speculative Decoding: Ngram ✅ ✅ ✅
Multimodal Inputs ✅ ❌ ✅
Out-of-tree model support ❌ ❌ ❌
multi-host ❓ ❌ ❓
hybrid kv cache ❓ ❓ ❓
runai_model_streamer_loader ❓ ❓ ❓
sampling_params ❓ ❓ ❓
Step Pooling (Embedding) ❓ ❓ ❓
structured_decoding ❓ ❓ ❓

Kernel Support

This table tracks high-level correctness and performance validation for distributed compute kernels.

Feature CorrectnessTest PerformanceTest
Collective Communication Matmul ✅ ❓
MLA ❓ ❓
MoE ❓ ❓
Quantized Attention ❓ ❓
Quantized KV Cache ❓ ❓
Quantized Matmul ❓ ❓
Ragged Paged Attention V3 ✅ ✅

Microbenchmark Kernel Support

This section outlines the detailed hardware and precision validation for our core microbenchmark kernels.

Category Test W16A16 W8A8 W8A16 W4A4 W4A8 W4A16
Moe Fused MoE ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
gmm ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
Dense All‑gather matmul ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
Attention Generic Ragged Paged
Attention V3		 ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
MLA ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
Ragged Paged
Attention V3 Head_Dim
64		 ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓

Note: - For attention kernels, W[x]A[y] denotes KV cache as W, A as compute, and x, y as bit precision.

Category Test W16A16 W8A8 W8A16 W4A4 W4A8 W4A16
Moe Fused MoE ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
gmm ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
Dense All‑gather matmul ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
Attention Generic Ragged Paged
Attention V3		 ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
MLA ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
Ragged Paged
Attention V3 Head_Dim
64		 ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓

Note: - For attention kernels, W[x]A[y] denotes KV cache as W, A as compute, and x, y as bit precision.

Parallelism Support

This table shows the current parallelism support status.

Feature Flax Torchax
Single-host Multi-host Single-host Multi-host
PP ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
DP ✅ ❓ ✅ ❓
EP ✅ ❓ ✅ ❓
TP ✅ ❓ ✅ ❓
CP ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
SP (vote to prioritize) ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓
Feature Flax Torchax
Single-host Multi-host Single-host Multi-host
PP ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
DP ✅ ❓ ✅ ❓
TP ✅ ❓ ✅ ❓
EP ❌ ❓ ✅ ❓
SP (vote to prioritize) ❌ ❓ ❓ ❓
CP ❓ ❓ ❓ ❓

Quantization Support

This table shows the current quantization support status.

Checkpoint dtype Method Supported
Hardware Acceleration		 Flax Torchax
FP4 W4A16 mxfp4 v7 ❓ ❓
FP8 W8A16 compressed-tensor v7 ❓ ❓
FP8 W8A8 compressed-tensor v7 ❓ ❓
INT4 W4A16 awq v5, v6 ❓ ❓
INT8 W8A8 compressed-tensor v5, v6 ❓ ❓

Note: - This table only tests checkpoint loading compatibility.

Checkpoint dtype Method Supported
Hardware Acceleration		 Flax Torchax
FP4 W4A16 mxfp4 v7 ❓ ❓
FP8 W8A16 compressed-tensor v7 ❓ ❓
FP8 W8A8 compressed-tensor v7 ❓ ❓
INT4 W4A16 awq v5, v6 ❓ ❓
INT8 W8A8 compressed-tensor v5, v6 ❓ ❓
NVFP4 W4A16 modelopt_fp4 v7 ❓ ❓

Note: - This table only tests checkpoint loading compatibility.