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Qwen 3.8 27b is strong even at Q3_xxs

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So usually I avoid Q3 quants because I have had bad experiences with it, models were usually too degraded, so the smallest I normally do is Q4, since I only have rtx 4060 ti 16gb. But since there hasn't been a 35b-3ab released yet, I had to try it. I don't use LLMs in agentic workflows, just on Tex…

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  1. 2026-08-21 13:43 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen 3.8 27b is strong even at Q3_xxs

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