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Smallest possible K-quant-only Qwen3.8-27b?

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I am on a quest to make Qwen3.8-27b fit on an A770 with decent context and have it run the fastest it can. SYCL is heavily bottlenecked by inefficient I-quant handling, so I-quant mixes like Unsloth run at 7 t/s while pure K-quants like Bartowski run at 12 t/s. Until SYCL backend is updated to hand…

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  1. 2026-09-13 23:00 · r/LocalLLM
    Smallest possible K-quant-only Qwen3.8-27b?

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