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Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

· Quesma · Aug. 26, 2026, 5:24 p.m.
benchmarking Quantization Qwen3.8 27B Unsloth GGUFs
Summary
This blog post evaluates the performance of different quantization methods of the Qwen3.8 27B model using various benchmarks, highlighting that the 4-bit quantization performs well while the 1-bit fails. The author tests this using tools on the RTX 4090.
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