llamaperf

Qwen3.8 27B

on AMD RX 9070 · llama.cpp · 131,072 ctx

AMD hardware
Sep 7, 2026
Throughput
40.7 t/s gen · 778.9 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
Q8
VRAM reported
16 GB

Summary

User reports Qwen3.8-27B-UD-IQ3_XXS.gguf at 40.68 t/s generation and 778.91 t/s prompt processing at 131,072 context, against 13.36 t/s and 137.87 t/s at 65,536 context. Setup is llama-server with flash-attn, a q8_0 KV cache, Vulkan0, and speculative decoding with draft-mtp and ngram-mod. User asks why the smaller context degrades performance.