Added an old 2070 Super to my rig and I can't go back...worse, now I need more
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In three linesUser reports adding an RTX 2070 Super (8 GB VRAM) to his high-end rig (RTX 5090, 9800X3D, 96 GB RAM) enables running Qwen 3.6-27B at Q8_0 with 144k context at 40-70 tok/s. Takeaway: more VRAM > raw performance for local inference.Read source
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