alt Hacker NewsIs Qwen 3.8 at Q4 good enough?
I tried to run 3.5 27b Q4 on what local hardware i had (only 8 Gb) and i was very disappointed. 3.8 wouldn't have fit in my VRAM and i wasn't in the mood to leave it overnight at slow speeds so I didn't try.
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Zambyte • yesterday at 7:53 PM
3.8 is a huge step up from 3.5, quantized or not. I do all of my programming on Qwen 3.8 27B Q4 these days.
I've run 3.8 flash next k4_xl on my Strix halo box (128GB). And in the work I have done so far it was not significantly worse than recent GPT (running default model on pro plan). Admittedly I was not doing complex work (reorganizing a jupyterbook), but I could not see significant difference in the quality of the work. It was a striking difference to Laguna s 2.1 which I had tried just before (much faster and much better quality).