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I tested 15 Qwen3.8 27B fine-tunes, quants and settings on two RTX 5070 Ti cards against the base model, plus a coding test built from my own projects. None beat it overall, but Tess-4.5 fixed as many of my bugs in about two-thirds of the time. Here's the two-model setup and settings I'd run on 32 GB of VRAM, for chat and for coding.

My Qwen3.8 27B benchmarks on a 16GB RTX 5070 Ti: base vs. Swift 1.5 for coding, Bonsai 2 for speed, with tested settings you can try.

Save time setting up Sunshine on Windows 11 with this helpful guide.

Windows can be a bloated mess, but with a little work, it can be turned into a delighful OS.