Task

Qwen3.5-27B inference on one B200

The most memory and speed gained over BF16 for the least drift, within the accuracy, speed, and length gates.

Workloads: serve: 64 prompts of 8,192 tokens, 32 in flight, 512 generated each; interactive: 32 prompts of 1,024 tokens, one at a time, 256 generated each; long_context: 128 prompts of 16,000 tokens, 64 in flight, 256 generated each.

ModelQwen3.5-27BQwen/Qwen3.5-27B@fc05daec18
Accuracy gate≤ 5 pointsdrop in every gated domain, 95% upper bound
Speed gate≥ 0.95× BF16over three workloads, less its error
BF16, 32 × 8K requests76.6 GiB 858 tokens/s

Checkpoint and engine

A checkpoint of Qwen3.5-27B on Hugging Face and the launch.sh that serves it, with the image's vLLM or your own server and kernels. The engine is timed first, then serves the accuracy runs under a hard memory cap of its largest timed peak.

LowBScore

LowBScore = E · exp(−max(D, 0) / 10) for a solution that passes the gates. E = √(m · s / max(1, 1 + L)): the memory and speed gains over BF16, with longer answers charged as time. D = 0.79 × mean drop + 0.21 × 42.8 × KL, in points. BF16 scores 1; a failed gate keeps 0.1 of the score, and a broken contract or engine rule scores 0. The board ranks a participant by its LowBScore × exp(−GPU·h / 100), the GPU-hours all of its evaluations of the task used.

Leaderboard

one board, two groups ranked apart

Participants rank by their last scored submission; references are standard recipes and published checkpoints served by the stock vLLM. Both face the same gates.

#MethodCheckpointW·A·KVEngine Memory Speed KL PPL Acc GenLen E D GPU·h Score
Participants · submitted through the API
Did not qualify · a failed gate keeps a tenth of the score; hover it for the gate
NVFP4+FP8 head+INT4 emb+fp16 GDN state+cap-safe serving-trial2-27b lowbarena-trial-27b-v1 W4A4KV8 own — — 0.027 – – – – – 10.3 0
References · standard recipes and published checkpoints, ranked apart
1 NVFP4, ModelOpt + FP8 KV AxionML/Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4 W4A4KV8 stock vLLM 2.10× 1.90× 0.028 – -1.10 +0.8% 1.99 1.12 – 1.777
2 NVFP4 + FP8 KV Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4 W4A4KV8 stock vLLM 1.83× 1.61× 0.020 +2.3% -0.62 +1.0% 1.71 0.67 – 1.594
3 FP8 per channel Qwen3.5-27B-FP8-Dynamic W8A8KV16 stock vLLM 1.31× 1.23× 0.002 +0.2% +0.27 -0.4% 1.27 -0.19 – 1.271
4 FP8, 128x128 blocks Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B-FP8 W8A8KV16 stock vLLM 1.42× 1.03× 0.002 +0.2% -0.21 +0.1% 1.21 0.18 – 1.187
5 FP8 KV cache Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B W16A16KV8 stock vLLM 1.15× 1.03× 0.000 0.0% -0.12 +0.3% 1.08 0.10 – 1.072
6 BF16 Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B W16A16KV16 stock vLLM 1.00× 1.00× 0.000 0.0% 0.00 0.0% 1.00 0.00 – 1.000
Did not qualify · a failed gate keeps a tenth of the score; hover it for the gate
NVFP4 on the agent's coverage Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4-GDN-calKV W4A4KV8 stock vLLM 2.20× 1.93× 0.085 – -3.16 +1.4% 2.05 3.26 – 0.148
NVFP4, llm-compressor apolo13x/Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4 W4A4KV16 stock vLLM 1.79× 1.78× 0.083 +8.0% -3.24 +1.9% 1.77 3.30 – 0.127
GPTQ + FP8 KV Qwen3.5-27B-GPTQ-W4A16 W4A16KV8 stock vLLM 1.85× 0.66× 0.028 +2.1% -0.79 -0.6% 1.11 0.87 – 0.102
GPTQ Int4, Qwen Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B-GPTQ-Int4 W4A16KV16 stock vLLM 1.45× 0.68× 0.010 +1.5% +0.19 -1.1% 0.99 -0.06 – 0.099
AWQ, QuantTrio QuantTrio/Qwen3.5-27B-AWQ W4A16KV16 stock vLLM 1.75× 0.61× 0.018 – -0.66 +0.4% 1.03 0.69 – 0.096
AutoRound kaitchup/Qwen3.5-27B-autoround-W4A16 W4A16KV16 stock vLLM 1.82× 0.57× 0.012 +1.1% -0.67 0.0% 1.01 0.64 – 0.095
GPTQ Qwen3.5-27B-GPTQ-W4A16 W4A16KV16 stock vLLM 1.54× 0.62× 0.028 +2.1% -1.00 -0.3% 0.98 1.04 – 0.088
Not yet scored
FP8 on the agent's coverage Qwen3.5-27B-FP8-GDN-calKV W8A8KV8 stock vLLM 1.69× 1.30× 0.003 – +0.10 +0.2% – – – measuring
FP8 per channel + FP8 KV Qwen3.5-27B-FP8-Dynamic W8A8KV8 stock vLLM 1.54× 1.23× 0.002 +0.2% +0.09 -0.4% – – – measuring
FP8, 128x128 blocks + FP8 KV Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B-FP8 W8A8KV8 stock vLLM 1.74× 1.04× 0.002 – -0.21 +0.3% – – – measuring
NVFP4 Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4 W4A4KV16 stock vLLM 1.47× 1.55× 0.019 +2.2% -0.64 +0.4% – – – measuring
NVFP4, ModelOpt AxionML/Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4 W4A4KV16 stock vLLM 1.77× 1.74× 0.026 +2.8% -0.95 +0.7% – – – measuring
AutoRound int4, Intel Intel/Qwen3.5-27B-int4-AutoRound W4A16KV16 stock vLLM — — – – – – – – – queued
NVFP4, kaitchup kaitchup/Qwen3.5-27B-NVFP4 W4A4KV16 stock vLLM — — – – – – – – – queued
Failed · the build or the evaluation stopped; hover the status for why
AWQ Qwen3.5-27B-AWQ-W4A16 W4A16KV16 stock vLLM — — – – – – – – – build fails
AWQ + FP8 KV Qwen3.5-27B-AWQ-W4A16 W4A16KV8 stock vLLM — — – – – – – – – build fails
INT4, llm-compressor apolo13x/Qwen3.5-27B-quantized.w4a16 — stock vLLM — — – – – – – – – failed
AWQ g32, cyankiwi cyankiwi/Qwen3.5-27B-AWQ-4bit W4A16KV16 stock vLLM — — – – – – – – – failed

Hover a column or a value for details; red marks a failed gate.

Reference configurations on the public split
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