Model benchmarks

prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf local LLM performance

As of October 2026, prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf runs at up to 61.7 tok/s for local inference (best of 11 community benchmark runs across 2 GPUs).

Unsloth StudioPQ2_0PTQ1_0Q4_K_MTQ1_0
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Model size

27B

Peak speed

61.7 tok/s

Average speed

40.5 tok/s

Avg PP

649.2 tok/s

Min memory

9.9 GB

Max context

65,536 tokens

Avg output / run

52,751 tokens

Avg runtime / run

28m 22s

Avg quality

68.2

Benchmark runs

11

GPUs tested

2

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 11 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)
Overall45.668.283.6
Agent Workflow73.983.591.4
Code Generation0.039.781.0
Role Play & Narrative68.684.190.7
Research & Analysis8.065.489.6

Performance by hardware and tool

Every hardware/tool/quantization combination prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf has been benchmarked on, ranked by peak token generation speed. Last updated October 2026.

HardwareToolQuantBest tok/sAvg tok/sMemoryContextQualityRuns
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070Unsloth StudioQ4_K_M61.7 tok/s61.7 tok/sn/a65,536 tokens60.51
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070Unsloth Studio—47.9 tok/s46.9 tok/s11.6 GB50,000 tokens67.73
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070Unsloth StudioTQ1_046.4 tok/s45.8 tok/sn/a50,000 tokens69.23
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070Unsloth StudioPTQ1_043.5 tok/s43.5 tok/s9.9 GB65,536 tokens82.81
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070Unsloth StudioPQ2_042.9 tok/s42.9 tok/s10.9 GB65,536 tokens79.71
Intel(R) Arc(TM) 140V GPU (16GB)Unsloth StudioPTQ1_09.9 tok/s9.9 tok/s16.9 GB16,384 tokens57.92

Benchmark runs

All 11 prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf runs submitted so far — expand one for its hardware, quality breakdown and per-scenario detail.

Frequently asked questions

Is prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf good for coding?
In our benchmarks, prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf scores 39.7/100 for coding. It runs at about 40.5 tok/s, so if you want more speed, ornith-1.5-35b-a3b-apex-i-quality is faster (~59.4 tok/s) and still scores well for coding (82.8/100).
Is prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf good for agentic (tool-using) tasks?
In our benchmarks, prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf scores 83.5/100 for agentic workflows. It runs at about 40.5 tok/s, so if you want more speed, swift-iq2_xs is faster (~91.5 tok/s) and still scores well for agentic workflows (91.4/100).
How fast is prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf for local inference?
Across 11 community benchmark runs, prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf reaches up to 61.7 tok/s and averages 40.5 tok/s, with the fastest results on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070.
How much memory does prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf need?
The leanest observed configuration used about 9.9 GB of memory (quantizations tested: PQ2_0, PTQ1_0, Q4_K_M, TQ1_0).
Which tools have been used to run prism-ml/Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf?
Benchmarks were submitted using Unsloth Studio. Results are community-contributed and updated as new runs arrive.