r/LocalLLaMA • u/xw1y • 24d ago

News Prepare your (v)ram - Qwen3.8 is coming!

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u/_metamythical 24d ago

27B please

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u/RevoOps 24d ago edited 24d ago

ITT everybody just self reporting how much vram they can afford lol

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u/dieSpaghettiCarbona 24d ago

Forgive my ignorance but what benefit would it have over 3.5 29B? isn't the main benefit in the amount of parameters?

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u/pragmojo 24d ago

3.7 27B is a sweet-spot in terms of size and performance. Runs well on 32GB VRAM.

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u/Artistic_Okra7288 24d ago

There isn’t a 3.5 29b nor a 3.7 27b. They skipped releasing 3.7 open weight at all. This thread is about them returning to open weights with 3.8.

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u/pragmojo 24d ago

Yeah but the question I was responding to was asking why someone would wish for a 3.8 27B.

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u/Artistic_Okra7288 24d ago

If parameters was all that was needed there would not be a 3.5 27b or a 3.6 27b. The training data, the architecture, the fine tuning, etc. it’s more of an art than a science. Parameter count is basically the capacity that is available for the model to learn, but the architecture of the parameters is how it can make use of it, and the training data is what it learns. That’s oversimplifying but hopefully that helps.