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we benchmark models nobody actually runs

Via r/LocalLlama
Monday, Aug 17, 2026 · 9:53PM
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qwen3.8-27b looks genuinely impressive on the benchmark tables - beating models many times its size on some of them. but those numbers come from bf16 weights, and nobody here is running a 27b at bf16. we're running the 4-bit at ~17gb because that's what fits on a 4090 or a 24gb mac. so the model tha

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