I’m waiting for the local coding agent distillations that us mortals can run on our systems.
27B and Qwen flash next can run with somewhat realistic specs. I run 27B on my 7900 XTX.
24gb, luxury 😉 I have to make do with 8gb if vram but the previous 3.5-9b-artimus worked ok. I wonder how much of the 27B is used for the multi model support?
I offload mmproj to the CPU to keep as much model weights in VRAM as possible 🙂
I was lucky enough to get one a few months ago for under $1k before the price doubled. It was the last sanely priced 24GB card, but that didn’t last long. 😭
Same thing, I bought mine last month!
I’ve found that mimo is pretty okay for its size too
Seems the hype train is on its way. But I must say I’d rather read about results than have advertisement forwarded to me.
This is the only set of benchmarks I can find at the moment: https://offloop.org/learn/qwen-4-max-preview-test. No idea if it’s fake slop or not, but it shows an early preview of Qwen 4 27B as being similar to Sonnet 5.5 on XHigh. Qwen 27B seems to be keeping pace with Sonnet, so this sounds plausible.
Weights or riot
Both!
it’s so close, I’m gonna Qwum!


