100$ worth of gpu runs qwen 3.8 27b at 7.39 t/s
Summary
A user demonstrates running the Qwen 27b AI model quantized to Q3_K_M on two RX 580 GPUs, achieving 7.39 tokens per second using old DDR3 hardware for under $100.
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