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I dropped Qwen and Gemma for a 27B model that runs smoothly on my 8GB graphics card - Bonsai 27B
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I run ornith 1.5 35b a3b on my 8gb Rx 7600, get 30 t/s, and have context at 130k. It slows down to around 15 t/s near the end on the context window.
Nothing I have tested comes close to this model.
I use it in pi with search, coding sandbox and limited filesystem access.
I cap mine to 80k (Q8_0) just cause it seems to be enough for agentic coding (Zoo Code), and past 80k the speed and quality start to drop
I will cap mine for shorter chats to 32k, but for full blown complex tasks, I'll turn it up to 130k. I run the q4 k m imatrix version
Benchmarks like SWE-Bench Pro are pretty close to Qwen 3.8 27B. I suppose this model is about what a Qwen 3.8 35b-a3b model would be. Alibaba appears to have moved onto Qwen 4 and haven’t announced any 35b-a3b models, so I’m glad this exists.
I don't really understand your comment? ~~Qwen3.8 27b is qwen4 architecture as a pre-release.~~ apparently i was wrong here, it's still on the 3.5 architecture.
A 27b dense model is really difficult to compare to a 35b a3b Moe model. I tried to run qwen3.8 27b on my 8gb card and ok it runs technically, but in no way is it viable or does it come close to ornith 1.5 35b a3b, mostly because to run qwen3.8 27b, I have to choke it to almost useless levels by running an aggressive quant like a 1, 2, or 3 bit quant, and even then it doesn't run as fast.
FYI: Qwen3.8 27B is still a Qwen3.5 architecture model (
Qwen3_5ForConditionalGenerationin config.json); Qwen3.8-Flash-Next -- a different model, despite the similar name -- is the Qwen4 preview (Qwen4ExpForConditionalGeneration).I believe what they're saying is that since we didn't get a MoE around the 35B-A3B size for the Qwen3.8 generation of releases that this model might be able to fill that niche -- i.e. a better model than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B while still being less compute intensive to run than Qwen3.8 27B.
AHH cool, I didn't thought both 3.8 models were on 4 architecture, I'll edit my previous comment 👍
Yeah, exactly, and sorry to everyone if I was unclear. I’m not holding out hope for a Qwen 4 35b-a3b either, so it’s good to see a model that comes close to 3.8 27b in benchmarks and I hope they stay competitive with Qwen 4 27b as well.