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Qwen3.8-27B at 262K context on a Strix Halo + RTX 3090 Ti: 9.5 -> 153 tok/s, and it beats a dual-3090 vLLM box on HumanEval

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Spent a while treating layer placement, KV format and llama.cpp itself as experimental variables. 159 logged experiments. Numbers first, caveats after. Hardware: AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395 (Strix Halo, 128 GB unified) + RTX 3090 Ti on an eGPU link. One llama.cpp process, AMD on Vulkan, NVIDIA on CUDA, o…

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  1. 2026-08-21 06:06 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Qwen3.8-27B at 262K context on a Strix Halo + RTX 3090 Ti: 9.5 -> 153 tok/s, and it beats a dual-3090 vLLM box on HumanEval

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