llamaperf

Qwen3.8 27B

on Unknown GPU · llama.cpp · 110,000 ctx

Tone: positive
Oct 20, 2026
Throughput
25.0 t/s gen · 750-1200 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
q4_0
System RAM
16 GB
VRAM reported
12 GB

Use cases

long-context

Summary

User reports Qwen3.8 27B at 25 tok/s generation with 110K context on a 12GB VRAM, 16GB RAM machine. Setup is llama.cpp with an IQ3_XXS GGUF quant, q4_0 KV cache, flash attention on, -ngl 62 and 110000 context; prefill runs 750 to 1200 tok/s. Other context points: 180K at 8 tok/s, 150K at 11 tok/s, 120K at 17 tok/s, 90K at 35 tok/s and 60K at 36 tok/s. The gains came from dropping the display from 4K to 1080p and turning off Moonlight streaming to free VRAM. MTP took too much VRAM to be usable.