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I think I am going to buy a second rtx 3060, as 27B has been just outside of my range for to long, and this looks like the parameter count tipping point

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Running it on 2x3060 now. Works pretty well but VRAM is tight. 4bit quants. 1x128k context, 8bit KV, MTP on.

whats the tok/s you get on that. I have heard a few claims of around 30-50 with mtp, but for how cheap the setup is I am surprised I don't hear more about 3060 stacks so I assume there has to be some catch.

I used GPT-5.6 Sol high to optimize it, and it claimed it was getting 50. I'm seeing ~40 on my goto smoketest: "Make me a vector add in CUDA".

Funny side note. It successfully one shot the program, but it wasn't able to run it because there literally wasn't enough VRAM left to allocate CUDA memory. Watching it try to debug that was fascinating. I'm pretty sure it would have killed the llama-server (and thus itself) if it hadn't been running in a separate container.

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