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Qwen 3.8 on Laptop RTX 5090 and Desktop 5090 through TB5

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Just want to share my unique setup and share that this actually works! My Specs: ROG Strix G16 96gb DDR5 RAM, Laptop RTX 5090, and a Desktop RTX 5090 connected through a Thunderbolt 5 eGPU. Ran llama.cpp through a docker container in WSL2 (Ubuntu) with a Windows 11 host OS. I exposed both the GPU i…

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  1. 2026-08-25 08:33 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen 3.8 on Laptop RTX 5090 and Desktop 5090 through TB5

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