llamaperf

Qwen3.8 27B

on AMD RX 7900 XT · llama.cpp · 2,048 ctx

Tone: negativeAMD hardware
Oct 23, 2026
Throughput
7-9 t/s gen
Quant
Q4_K_M (GGUF)
VRAM reported
20 GB

Summary

User reports Qwen3.8-27B at around 7-9 t/s on an RX 7900 XT 20GB, sometimes lower, and asks why it is so slow compared with a desktop PC. Setup is llama.cpp (llama-cli) with a Q4_K_M GGUF at 2048 context, -ngl 99, on a dual Xeon E5-2630 v3 server with 192GB DDR4 1866. The speed is given only as a range, so no single figure is recorded.