llamaperf

Qwen3.8 27B

on NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti · llama.cpp · 32,768 ctx

Tone: positiveNVIDIA hardware
Sep 7, 2026
Throughput
72.8 t/s gen · 1647.0 tokens/s prompt processing (prefill)Prompt processing measures input prefill speed; it does not tell you the time to first token.
Quant
Q3_K_XL (GGUF)
KV cache
q8_0
System RAM
96 GB
VRAM reported
16 GB

Summary

User reports Qwen3.8-27B at Q3_K_XL on an RTX 5070 Ti 16GB with llama.cpp, reaching about 73 t/s at 32k context with MTP on and fully GPU-resident. At-depth generation is 64.5 t/s at 24.1k depth, with prefill at 1647 t/s at depth. MTP off gives about 50 t/s. The practical context ceiling is 40k, or 49k with MTP off. The user also compares Q3_K_XL against Q2_K_XL and finds Q3 faster than its size predicts.