Qwen 27B sacrifices context to run better quants; pros and cons
Read original on r/LocalLLaMA ↗I was running Unsloth IQ4_XS for a while and while it provided me with a healthy 96K context on 20GB vram, I did notice all the issues it had during draft and all the time and local tokens wasted trying to fix said...
Original headline: "Qwen 27B - sacrificing context in order run better quants, pros and cons."
Timeline
- October 16, 2026 Qwen 27B - sacrificing context in order run better quants, pros and cons. r/LocalLLaMA
- October 17, 2026 Qwen 27B (IQ4_XS, Q8/Q4 KV) at full 262k context on a 16GB RX 9070 XT: 80+ t/s decode with Adaptive KV Streaming r/LocalLLaMA