Shapelearn Runs Qwen 3.8 27B in Just 13.1 GB of VRAM
syntaxing · hn · 2026-09-18
A Byteshape blog post presents Shapelearn, a setup that runs the Qwen 3.8 27B model within only 13.1 GB of VRAM, an exercise in quantization and memory optimization for local deployment.
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