This draft model is OP on 16 GB cards for Qwen 3.8 27b

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https://huggingface.co/HermiHg/Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2-Q2_K_S-MIX-GGUF I used this draft model with https://huggingface.co/ISTA-DASLab/Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF with the IQ3_XXS with 128k context and I saw it averaging about 60 tokens per second tg speed on the 16 GB RX 9070 XT. This is much better than using the built in MTP since the built in MTP seems to multiply the required VRAM. For single thread mode, I'd say this is one of the best choices on a 16 GB GPU. Though speculative draft models seem