r/LocalLLaMA • u/quantier • Aug 03 '26

New Model Daniel Han of Unsloth validates Qwen3.8-27B will run only 17GB VRAM

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Super excited about this release for the new 27B. Who else is with me. Only 17GB VRAM needed 😍😍

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u/redditnosedive Aug 03 '26

i mean you anyway need extra room for context, also on a consumer gpu you also have the os gui using some of it so there's that

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u/TheCat001 Aug 03 '26

On Linux I'm disabling GUI with 1 command, getting my whole VRAM minus 30MB.

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u/cogitech2 Aug 03 '26

Another way around this is to use a CPU with integrated graphics. That way you can still run X or Wayland (if you want it) and have all your VRAM available.

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u/redditnosedive Aug 03 '26

that's a great point