Qwen3.8 27B Q4_K_M

Qwen3.8 27B · 27.3B dense · llama.cpp · GGUF Q4_K_M · 17.44 GB · bartowski/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF @125a02a

Generation, empty context

31.7 t/s

± 0.29

Generation at 16k context

28.2 t/s

Prompt processing

1,037 t/s

Peak VRAM

16.9 GB

during llama-bench

GPU power while generating

247 W

Energy efficiency

0.13 tok/J

Settings

llama-server -m Qwen3.8-27B-Q4_K_M.gguf --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8080 -a qwen3.8-27b-q4_k_m-gguf/32k-q8kv --fit off -c 32768 -np 1 --cache-ram 0 -ngl 999 -fa on -ctk q8_0 -ctv q8_0 -b 2048 -ub 512 -t 6 -ncmoe 0 -lm mmap --metrics --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0 --presence-penalty 0

Setting	Value
`ctx`	32768
`gpu_layers`	999
`flash_attn`	on
`cache_type_k`	q8_0
`cache_type_v`	q8_0
`batch`	2048
`ubatch`	512
`threads`	6
`n_cpu_moe`	0
`parallel`	1
`load_mode`	mmap
`cache_ram_mib`	0
`spec`	—
`reasoning_format`	—
`reasoning_budget`	—
`extra_args`	["--temp","1.0","--top-p","0.95","--top-k","20","--min-p","0","--presence-penalty","0"]

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Speed

Generation vs context depth

All configs of this model; the selected one is solid.

Prompt processing vs context depth

Test	Depth	t/s	± sd	Reps	GPU W	Tok/J
pp512 llama-bench	0	1,037	127	5	174	5.97
pp512 llama-bench	4k	1,091	23.3	5	227	4.80
pp512 llama-bench	16k	988	14.8	5	240	4.11
tg128 llama-bench	0	31.7	0.29	5	247	0.13
tg128 llama-bench	4k	30.8	0.19	5	245	0.13
tg128 llama-bench	16k	28.2	0.10	5	245	0.12

GPU power during the run

VRAM during the run

Quality

Not measured yet: perplexity and KL-divergence against a reference quant.

Task evals

Not measured yet.

Run history

Date	Kind	Engine build	Driver	Duration	Flags
2026-09-15 18:45	speed	`llama.cpp@91f6a6cf3`	595.99.02	2.6 min