diff --git a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NVFP4.yaml b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NVFP4.yaml
index f162aa8bfe5..799a7694e9d 100644
--- a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NVFP4.yaml
+++ b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/Qwen3-30B-A3B-NVFP4.yaml
@@ -2,4 +2,5 @@ model_name: "nvidia/Qwen3-30B-A3B-FP4"
 accuracy_threshold: 0.89
 num_questions: 1319
 num_fewshot: 5
+startup_max_wait_seconds: 1200
 server_args: "--enforce-eager --max-model-len 4096"
diff --git a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-NVFP4-EP2.yaml b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-NVFP4-EP2.yaml
index 7f2f096fd27..a26dfccda4a 100644
--- a/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-NVFP4-EP2.yaml
+++ b/tests/evals/gsm8k/configs/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-NVFP4-EP2.yaml
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ model_name: "nm-testing/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Instruct-NVFP4"
 accuracy_threshold: 0.75
 num_questions: 1319
 num_fewshot: 5
+startup_max_wait_seconds: 1200
 server_args: >-
   --enforce-eager
   --max-model-len 4096