llamaperf

Qwen3.8 27B

on NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti 16GB · beellama · 85,000 ctx

Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
Sep 10, 2026
Throughput
45.0 t/s gen · 300.0 tokens/s prompt processing (prefill)Prompt processing measures input prefill speed; it does not tell you the time to first token.
Quant
IQ3_XXS (GGUF)
KV cache
kvarn4
VRAM reported
16 GB

Use cases

visionlong-context

Summary

User reports Qwen3.8-27B running on an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB with vision and 85K context, leaving 1.5GB VRAM headroom. Setup is beellama, a llama.cpp fork, with MTP speculative decoding, the IQ3_XXS-mtp quant from ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF, and a kvarn4 KV cache quant. The user notes mmproj could be moved to CPU for more VRAM.