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Running Qwen 3.8 27B as a VS Code Copilot backend on 16/32 GB VRAM

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I've been running a 27B coding model locally as the backend for VS Code Copilot, and I wrote up everything I learned. The short version: Model: Qwen 3.8 27B, two profiles: 16 GB (RTX 4070 Ti Super): Q3_K_XL + 100K context — KV cache quantized to q4_0 and split between GPU and system RAM, which is w…

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  1. 2026-09-07 15:25 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Are you running Qwen 3.8 27b or Qwen Flash Next?
  2. 2026-09-06 23:00 · r/LocalLLaMA
    vllm + p2p driver hack + qwen 3.8 27B vs llamacpp + qwen flash next ?
  3. 2026-09-05 17:03 · r/LocalLLM
    Running Qwen 3.8 27B as a VS Code Copilot backend on 16/32 GB VRAM

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