I think (maybe I missed something) that identical size and quant versions of Qwen 3.5 and 3.8 should run at the same speed. It’s the exact same architecture.

There is no way you would run a dense 27b model on that spec. I ran 3.6 27b on a 64gb ram, 24 gb vram, and it felt like the lower limit for this model with a decent context window.

If you want a better experience, maybe wait for either a moe model (like 3.6 35b A3) or a model with less parameters (like 9b). Qwen has been releasing those in the past, so maybe we’ll have them for 3.8 too.

were you running the MoE models? those perform better speed wise