diff --git a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp
index f4a578b893..5fbebc6d75 100644
--- a/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp
+++ b/ggml/src/ggml-vulkan/ggml-vulkan.cpp
@@ -699,6 +699,7 @@ struct vk_device_struct {
 
     bool add_rms_fusion;
     uint32_t partials_binding_alignment;
+    uint32_t max_nodes_per_submit;
 
     bool shader_64b_indexing;
 
@@ -5878,6 +5879,14 @@ static vk_device ggml_vk_get_device(size_t idx) {
         device->subgroup_vote = (vk11_props.subgroupSupportedStages & vk::ShaderStageFlagBits::eCompute) &&
                                 (vk11_props.subgroupSupportedOperations & vk::SubgroupFeatureFlagBits::eVote);
 
+        // Submit at least every 100 nodes, in case there are workloads without as much matmul.
+        device->max_nodes_per_submit = 100;
+        const char* GGML_VK_MAX_NODES_PER_SUBMIT = getenv("GGML_VK_MAX_NODES_PER_SUBMIT");
+        if (GGML_VK_MAX_NODES_PER_SUBMIT != nullptr) {
+            uint32_t max_nodes_per_submit = std::stoul(GGML_VK_MAX_NODES_PER_SUBMIT);
+            device->max_nodes_per_submit = std::max(max_nodes_per_submit, 1u);
+        }
+
         const bool force_disable_f16 = getenv("GGML_VK_DISABLE_F16") != nullptr;
 
         device->fp16 = !force_disable_f16 && fp16_storage && fp16_compute;
@@ -16173,8 +16182,6 @@ static ggml_status ggml_backend_vk_graph_compute(ggml_backend_t backend, ggml_cg
     // Submit after enough work has accumulated, to overlap CPU cmdbuffer generation with GPU execution.
     // Estimate the amount of matmul work by looking at the weight matrix size, and submit every 100MB
     // (and scaled down based on model size, so smaller models submit earlier).
-    // Also submit at least every 100 nodes, in case there are workloads without as much matmul.
-    int nodes_per_submit = 100;
     int submitted_nodes = 0;
     int submit_count = 0;
     uint64_t mul_mat_bytes = 0;
@@ -16400,7 +16407,7 @@ static ggml_status ggml_backend_vk_graph_compute(ggml_backend_t backend, ggml_cg
 
         // Signal the almost_ready fence when the graph is mostly complete (< 20% remaining)
         bool almost_ready = (cgraph->n_nodes - i) < cgraph->n_nodes / 5;
-        bool submit = (submitted_nodes >= nodes_per_submit) ||
+        bool submit = ((uint32_t)submitted_nodes >= ctx->device->max_nodes_per_submit) ||
                       (mul_mat_bytes_per_submit != 0 && mul_mat_bytes >= mul_mat_bytes_per_submit) ||
                       (i + ctx->num_additional_fused_ops >= last_node) ||
                       (almost_ready && !ctx->almost_ready_fence_pending);