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I got Qwen3.8 27B running as a local coding agent on a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti

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I’ve been experimenting with whether a serious local coding agent can run on affordable hardware, not just produce nice tok/s numbers. I put together a reproducible setup for running Qwen3.8 27B on an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB using llama.cpp, MTP, Flash Attention, and quantized KV cache. It includes: - A s…

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  1. 2026-09-02 04:39 · r/LocalLLM
    I got Qwen3.8 27B running as a local coding agent on a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti

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