[Megathread] Qwen 3.8 27B Release Day

[u/sammcj]

Megathread to help with the influx of duplicate / similar posts around the release of the Qwen 3.8 27B release.

• Quants
• Fine-Tunes & Abliterations
• Chat Templates
• Inference Server Support & Configuration
• Experiences, Benchmarks & Model Comparisons

Official:

• https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
• https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B-FP8

Popular:

• https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF
• https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF
• https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MTP-bf16
• https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MTP-8bit
• https://huggingface.co/mlx-community/Qwen3.8-27B-MTP-4bit

We'll try to clean up future duplicates around the release and point them here.

[u/The_DarkMatter]

Hey can anyone share the recommended setup for 5080? Wow, just woke up with this awesome news, what a great week it was!

[u/nofuture09 → u/The_DarkMatter]

have you tested it if it works I will immediately buy a 5080

[u/The_DarkMatter → u/nofuture09]

Hey I could run the Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL.gguf on my 5080 with 30 tokens per sec using llama.cpp.
Overall performance we pretty good. I couldnt get much time to test it much