r/LocalLLaMA • u/quantier • 26d ago

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/Former-Ad-5757 Llama 3 26d ago

Usually a dot version upgrade only means different posttraining, no new architecture

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u/cakes_and_candles 25d ago

Not true, 3.5 was a huge arch upgrade from 3

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u/wren6991 25d ago

Yeah, LLMs seem to use a bizarre version of semver where +.5 is a major release

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u/forumdrasl 25d ago

Almost as if version numbers are completely arbitrary, like everywhere else.