Unsloth's Qwen 3.8 Q4KXL Fails in Long Context, Bartowski Holds Up
Healthy-Nebula-3603 · reddit · 2026-08-18
Comparative testing of Unsloth (Q4KXL) and Bartowski (Q4KM) Qwen 3.8 27B GGUF models revealed a critical failure in the Unsloth version. Beyond 60k tokens and after context compaction at 72k, the Unsloth model collapsed with broken logic and empty reasoning, while the Bartowski model remained stable.
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