llamaperf

Qwen3.8 27B

on NVIDIA RTX 3090 · llama.cpp · 65,536 ctx

Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
Oct 20, 2026
Throughput
38.0 t/s gen · 900-1200 tokens/s prompt processing (prefill)Prompt processing measures input prefill speed; it does not tell you the time to first token.
Quant
Q4_K_M (GGUF)
KV cache
q8_0
System RAM
64 GB
VRAM reported
24 GB

Use cases

coding

Summary

User reports Qwen3.8-27B Q4_K_M at a median of about 38 tokens/s on an RTX 3090 in a USB4 eGPU enclosure attached to a Beelink GTR7 mini PC. Setup is llama.cpp with Q4_K_M weights, q8_0 KV cache, 64K context, flash attention on, and n-gram speculative decoding enabled. Prompt evaluation runs about 900-1200 tokens/s on large prompts, with spikes up to about 280 t/s when speculation hits on repetitive code. VRAM use is 20.7 of 24.6 GB with the full 64K context.