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Is a second 5060 ti 16gb worth it?

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Hello, currently I can barely run Qwen 3.8 27b q3 with low context window on my single 5060 ti 16Gb and 48Gb ram ddr5 on 30t/s. My question is: is it worth it to add a second 5060 ti 16gb? The second slot on my motherboard is a x4 line so I'm not sure if that's a bottleneck. My goal is: Qwen 3.8 27…

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  1. 2026-09-11 16:25 · r/LocalLLM
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