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I benchmarked IFM/K2-Horizon-7B on 16GB VRAM

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After two days of fighting with benchmarking infrastructure, I finally benchmarked IFM/K2-Horizon-7B on 16GB VRAM. TL/DR: it works, but far behind Qwen-3.8-27B. Setup I compared 3 models - Qwen3.8-27B, Ornith-1.5-9B and new IFM/K2-Horizon-7B - on the following setup: All models were fit completely…

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  1. 2026-09-17 18:43 · r/LocalLLaMA
    IFM/K2-Horizon-7B-Uno · Hugging Face - 5200tps with no quality loss
  2. 2026-09-15 19:25 · r/LocalLLaMA
    I benchmarked IFM/K2-Horizon-7B on 16GB VRAM

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