2x R9700, 64 GB DDR5 is an absolute beast machine with vLLM Radiance / R9V and Qwen 3.8 27b and Flash next
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I've been tinkering with local LLMs since the beginning of the year when I had an Intel Arc B580 and 32 GB of DDR5. Curiosity got the best of me and I bought the first R9700 about half a year ago, also because I wanted to upgrade my gaming graphics for 4k. As the 5090 was about 3 times as expensive…
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- 2026-09-08 15:53 · r/LocalLLM
Running Qwen 3.8 27B at Q4 on 16GB VRAM at 200K CTX at 50t/s - 2026-09-07 15:25 · r/LocalLLaMA
Are you running Qwen 3.8 27b or Qwen Flash Next? - 2026-09-06 23:00 · r/LocalLLaMA
vllm + p2p driver hack + qwen 3.8 27B vs llamacpp + qwen flash next ? - 2026-09-06 19:15 · r/LocalLLM
CPU only, 64 GB DDR5: Qwen3.8-Flash-Next UD-Q3_K_XL - 2026-09-06 17:48 · r/LocalLLaMA
2x R9700, 64 GB DDR5 is an absolute beast machine with vLLM Radiance / R9V and Qwen 3.8 27b and Flash next