Drilldown: Recipe

Qwen3.8 27B on 1x 8 GB (W4A16 vLLM) (1)

Qwen3.8-27B (dense) (1)

W4A16 (INT4 weights, Marlin kernels) (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 · recipe 0.2.1; engine 18305948ac · 0.1.dev1+ga5530b90c.d20260829 · 0.29.1rc1.dev402+ga5a30471f.ple1 · Deepinfer-SM80 2a828fc lineage; vLLM v0.28.1rc0 base · Deepinfer-SM80, vLLM v0.28.1rc0 base · Flun/glm53-flash-cmp170hx-exl3 at 5933112 · GNmac-lab at 2ad5741ab1; image ds41-cmp170hx:1.2.0-fidelity · latest-sm80 tag as of 2026-10-16 · not stated · q38fn/stack on nightly-7d0b4e57 · recipe 0.3.1; engine 18305948ac · recipe 1.0.0 (commit d4d1f525), engine a0c57b52 · recipe 1.0.0, engine a0c57b5237 · recipe 1.2.0 · recipe 1.8.0, engine 819146023f · recipe 31318fd; patches 0001-0020 · reports 0.0.0; patches/public-base-to-runtime.patch (109 files) · tag qwen38-recipe-1.0.0, engine 18305948ac · tag recipe-09 (309ef6d1); TabbyAPI deepseek-v41 (ce250ff) · upstream dev 0f685aa9fd plus 9 patches; repo db01c256 · v1.0.6 (this row) · vLLM 0.30.1rc1, fork commit 378c37b0 · vLLM v0.30.0 (ced6857a); plugin zankich/vllm v0.29.0z (6609bfef) · vllm-backport 3142ded1 · vllm-cmp170hx 18305948ac; TC-MoE fb9786ec · Other

8 GB (1)

1 (1)

single card (1)

262,144 native (YaRN to about 500k in the recipe's long variant) (1)

170 (1)

None (1)

64 GB (1)

None (1)

None (1)

None (1)

Reported (1)

kellertreppe123 (1)

October 5, 2026 (1)

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/comments/1w2f03e/qwen3827b_w4a16_on_one_64_gb_cmp_170hx_16070/ (1)