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How I got 280 tok/s on Qwen3.8 27B on 2xr9700's and 920k tokens kv cache

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BetterBench Decode Results On the R9700's I figured out the best path and quality was to get W4A8 running. AMD had also just dropped their AWQ MXFP4 quant of Qwen3.8 27B which is what I am running along with FP8 kv cache. The quality has been great, I ran comparisons across a mini SWE bench and in…

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  1. 2026-09-01 22:35 · r/LocalLLaMA
    How I got 280 tok/s on Qwen3.8 27B on 2xr9700's and 940k tokens kv cache
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    How I got 280 tok/s on Qwen3.8 27B on 2xr9700's and 920k tokens kv cache

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