Drilldown: Recipe

GLM 5.3 Flash on 3x 8 GB (1) · Qwen3.8 27B on 1x 8 GB (W4A16 vLLM) (1)

GLM-5.3-Flash (320B MoE, 18B active) (1) · Qwen3.8-27B (dense) (1)

W4A16 (INT4 weights, Marlin kernels) (1) · W4A16, about 4.3 bpw, 163 GiB on disk (1)

Morrowmake/vllm-cmp170hx (vLLM fork, container image) · vLLM PR #56201 head (79a7108d) plus the two Deepinfer-SM80 patches and 30 drop-in modules · Custom SM80 vLLM (patched from public commit 79a7108d9) · ExLlamaV3 (patched, pinned) · ExLlamaV3 1.5.4 (built for SM80) with a small OpenAI-compatible server · ExLlamaV3 fork (anoane/exllamav3-anemone) + TabbyAPI fork (anoane/tabbyAPI) · GNmac-lab recipe image 1.2.0 (vLLM with sm_80 patches) plus three patches · Morrowmake/vllm-cmp170hx (bind-mounted sm80 package) plus the author's tensor-core MoE kernels · Morrowmake/vllm-cmp170hx (EXL3 path) · Morrowmake/vllm-cmp170hx (via the glm53-flash-cmp170hx-recipe) · Morrowmake/vllm-cmp170hx branch ampere-glm53 plus fail-closed source patches · Morrowmake/vllm-cmp170hx image (Qwen EXL3 release) with patch files mounted read-only · Morrowmake/vllm-cmp170hx image (tag qwen38-recipe-1.0.0) plus one mounted file (vLLM #58235 vision-sink fix) · Morrowmake/vllm-cmp170hx image with patch files mounted read-only · Project Maya (Strata and llama.cpp lineage) · Project Maya (Strata and llama.cpp lineage, EXL3 loading, DFlash2 drafter) · vLLM · vLLM (build not stated) · vLLM 0.29.1rc1 nightly plus the checkpoint author's patches · vLLM a5a30471 plus a 13-file downstream patch (native Linux AIO PLE reader) · vLLM nightly + PR #53899 (a5530b9) + the repo's patch scripts · vLLM nightly 7d0b4e57 plus the author's pure-Python fork clee/vllm-sm80 (branch q38fn/stack) · vLLM PR #56201 head (79a7108d) plus a 20-patch sm_80 series; image zanooda/vllm-sm80-ds41f:v41-sm80 · vLLM v0.30.0 + zankich INT4-PLE plugin + six hash-guarded patch layers · vLLM with a pinned sm_80 patch stack (built locally from source) · wtdcode/vllm-backport (image lazymio/vllm-backport:latest-sm80) · wtdcode/vllm-backport 3142ded1 plus a two-file patch and two tinybeast PLE plugins (venv, no container) · Other · None

None (1) · not stated (1)

8 GB · Other · None

1 (1) · 3 (1)

PP3 (1) · single card (1)

262,144 native (YaRN to about 500k in the recipe's long variant) (1) · about 1,000,000 (8-bit KV cache) (1)

None (1) · 170 (1)

None (2)

64 GB (1) · 64 GiB (1)

None (2)

None (2)

None (2)

Reported (2)

kellertreppe123 (1) · shirogeek (1)

October 5, 2026 (1) · October 19, 2026 (1)

https://discord.com/channels/1518634379604136178/1518695289278566450/1561743826945843304 (1) · https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/comments/1w2f03e/qwen3827b_w4a16_on_one_64_gb_cmp_170hx_16070/ (1)