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Budget hardware advice sought for Qwen 3.8-27B model

A user on Reddit's r/LocalLLaMA subreddit is seeking hardware recommendations for running the Qwen 3.8-27B model on a limited budget. They currently possess an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and aim for a performance of approximately 50 tokens per second. AI

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Budget hardware advice sought for Qwen 3.8-27B model

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/InternationalGap3698 ·

    If you are at the lowest budget, which you can think of.Which hardware would you recommend to run? qwen 3.8 27b oWith like 50 tokens per second. I currently have a RTX 5070 Ti.

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