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Single R9700 pretty happy with 3.8 27b. What am I missing out?

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I've made the investment into an R9700 and been very happy running qwen3.8 27bq4 with about 160k context window at 50t/s for my project atlanotes.com and recently goldsrcspraymaker.com I keep seeing posts insisting on two to run higher quants, but I've seen qwen3.8 work as low as 2 bit and seems to…

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  1. 2026-09-16 17:36 · r/LocalLLM
    Single R9700 pretty happy with 3.8 27b. What am I missing out?

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