Did a quick local test because I wanted to see what is actually usable on my 12GB laptop GPU. I tested the newer Qwen3.8 27B dense files at Q2 and Q3, then compared them against Qwen3.6 35B-A3B MoE. Hardware: RTX 5070 Ti Laptop, 12GB VRAM Backend: llama.cpp CUDA Settings: 4k context, q8 KV, --fit on
