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Qwen3.8 27B model shows speed gains on RTX 5090, but vLLM integration proves challenging

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A user details their experience installing and running the Qwen3.8 27B model on an RTX 5090 GPU. They found that using Ollama, the model offered approximately double the generation speed compared to previous versions, with significantly reduced processing time for complex tasks. However, the user encountered issues attempting to use vLLM for concurrent requests, citing problems with the model's reported "4-bit" quantization actually consuming more VRAM than expected and CUDA graph limitations. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates performance improvements in newer models and highlights potential integration challenges with advanced inference frameworks.

RANK_REASON User experience report on running a specific LLM version with different runtimes and hardware.

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Qwen3.8 27B model shows speed gains on RTX 5090, but vLLM integration proves challenging

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · kohei_wada ·

    Qwen3.8 27B Measured on an RTX 5090 — and Why vLLM Didn't Work

    <h2> Introduction </h2> <p>Qwen3.8 27B came out, so I put it on my RTX 5090 (32GB). How it did on multi-step agent work is in <a href="https://wada-dev.com/en/blog/local-llm-eval-harness-reuse" rel="noopener noreferrer">Only the Design of My Eval Harness Survived</a>; this post i…

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