Model benchmarks

unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:IQ3_S local LLM performance

As of August 2026, unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:IQ3_S runs at up to 107.2 tok/s for local inference (best of 2 community benchmark runs across 1 GPU).

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Model size

27B

Peak speed

107.2 tok/s

Average speed

106.4 tok/s

Min memory

13.2 GB

Max context

131,072 tokens

Avg output / run

93,783 tokens

Avg runtime / run

13m 59s

Avg quality

87.4

Benchmark runs

2

GPUs tested

1

Quality by task

Average LLM-judged quality (0–100) with the run-to-run spread shown as a P5–P95 band, overall and for each benchmark task, across all 2 runs. The low and high columns show how much the judge’s score varies between runs, and need at least two runs to display.

TaskP5 (low)AvgP95 (high)
Overall86.587.488.3
Agent Workflow90.490.490.4
Code Generation80.280.580.8
Role Play & Narrative88.091.093.9
Research & Analysis87.587.888.0

Performance by hardware and tool

Every hardware/tool/quantization combination unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:IQ3_S has been benchmarked on, ranked by peak token generation speed. Last updated August 2026.

HardwareToolQuantBest tok/sAvg tok/sMemoryContextQualityRuns
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090llama.cpp107.2 tok/s106.4 tok/s13.2 GB131,072 tokens87.42

Frequently asked questions

Is unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:IQ3_S good for coding?
In our benchmarks, unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:IQ3_S scores 80.5/100 for coding. It runs at about 106.4 tok/s, so if you want more speed, Tiel-Coder-35B-A3B-MLX-oQ4e-MTP is faster (~123.6 tok/s) and still scores well for coding (76.5/100).
Is unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:IQ3_S good for agentic (tool-using) tasks?
In our benchmarks, unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:IQ3_S scores 90.4/100 for agentic workflows. It runs at about 106.4 tok/s, so if you want more speed, openai/gpt-oss-20b:2 is faster (~154.8 tok/s) and still scores well for agentic workflows (87.2/100).
How fast is unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:IQ3_S for local inference?
Across 2 community benchmark runs, unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:IQ3_S reaches up to 107.2 tok/s and averages 106.4 tok/s, with the fastest results on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090.
How much memory does unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:IQ3_S need?
The leanest observed configuration used about 13.2 GB of memory.
Which tools have been used to run unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:IQ3_S?
Benchmarks were submitted using llama.cpp. Results are community-contributed and updated as new runs arrive.