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I benchmarked 21 Qwen3.8 27B variants on 16GB VRAM

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After Qwen3.8 27B came out, I decided to benchmark the models that could fit in my GPU (RTX 5080) on my actual code ( C code), the results were not completely unexpected but some quants were definitely underwhelming. TLDR : Best overall: bartowski/Qwen3.8-27B-IQ4_XS . Best uncensored: huihui-ai/Hui…

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  1. 2026-09-04 19:33 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I benchmarked 21 Qwen3.8 27B variants on 16GB VRAM

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