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Qwen 3.8 27B on one 5090: 22 GB VRAM, 175k context — a coding driver, not a Claude replacement

“Can Qwen 3.8 27B replace a Claude subscription for coding and agentic workflows?” Short answer from a single-GPU box: for everyday coding it gets close, for long-running agentic work it trades one set of problems for another. My setup: Qwen 3.8 nvfp4-vision (27.3B params, Q8_0) served by Ollama on…

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  1. 2026-09-22 12:06 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen 3.8 27B on one 5090: 22 GB VRAM, 175k context — a coding driver, not a Claude replacement

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