I have just moved from MacBook M5 pro 48 GB to RTX3090

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Summary

A software developer shares their experience switching from a MacBook to an RTX3090 Linux setup for running AI models, achieving significantly higher inference speeds with Qwen 3.8 27B and potentially replacing their Claude subscription.

Using the RTX3090 on a linux machine I built for it and running Qwen 3.8 27B getting average 100t/s compared to my MacBook 20t/s I think I can finally get rid of my Claude subscription, this is good enough for me. I am a software dev and I can get what I need from this set up and be more productive. I am using the linux machine serving the model over an Open AI endpoint and using a custom build desktop app with pi behind it all. Regarding speeds average 20t/s on Mac with llama.cpp with mtp Unsloth Q6, Q4 on Mac didnt make much difference in speed for me. Linux running https://github.com/syv-ai/qwen38-27b-rtx3090 which is vLLM and a Q4 model I believe. Tool calls definitely fail more but qwen3.8 seems smart enough to fix and correct itself
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