Maybe they should have tried Qwen 3.8 Flash Next and Strata. Faster than 27B, around 60tps, and more intelligent on benchmarks.

I'm using this on my own 2x 5060TI.

I abandoned 27B on llama - split mode tensor, 200K context (Q5/Q4_1), ubatch 3072, batch 6144, it managed 1900tps prompt processing (same result as article for decode).