vLLM Unlocks Record-Breaking Inference Performance for Gemma 4 on Cloud TPU v6e-4

This configuration demonstrates that large mixture-of-experts models can achieve enterprise-grade throughput on cloud TPUs through careful tensor parallelism and quantization optimization. The verified setup provides a reproducible blueprint for production inference serving, achieving 468K tokens/second throughput with 0.3-second latency—validating vLLM's maturity for scaling advanced reasoning models in cost-sensitive deployments.