Reddit r/LocalLLaMAAugust 21, 2026
Qwen 3.8 27b is strong even at Q3_xxs
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So usually I avoid Q3 quants because I have had bad experiences with it, models were usually too degraded, so the smallest I normally do is Q4, since I only have rtx 4060 ti 16gb. But since there hasn't been a 35b-3ab released yet, I had to try it. I don't use LLMs in agentic workflows, just on Textgen since I'm not a coder so this is not the primary use case of LLMs for me - but sometimes I really need some coding capabilities or help. I'm very impressed how it one shot multiple serious coding