llamaperf

Qwen3.8 27B

on NVIDIA RTX 5090 · llama.cpp · 137,984 ctx

NVIDIA hardware
Sep 7, 2026
Throughput
100.0 t/s gen
Quant
Q8_0 (GGUF)
KV cache
Q5_1
MTP (Multi-Token Prediction)
on
VRAM reported
32 GB

Summary

User benchmarks context length against KV cache quants on an RTX 5090 with Qwen3.8 27B MTP Q8_0 GGUF. Maximum stable context is 105,216 tokens with a Q8_0 KV cache, 137,984 with Q5_1, and 169,984 with Q4_0. Throughput dropped from 100 t/s to 25 t/s, which the user attributes to a llama.cpp issue.