Tess-4-27B
1recorded run
18.8best tok/s
1verified
What the Tess-4-27B numbers mean
The fastest verified result on our board is 18.8 output tok/s on an RTX 3060 x2 at Q4_K_M with a 512-token context. That is about 53.1 ms per generated token — 500 tokens takes roughly 26.5 seconds. Prompt processing on the same record runs at 523.7 tok/s, so a 2,000-token prompt is read in about 3.8 seconds. Peak VRAM was measured at 19.4 GB.
How much VRAM does Tess-4-27B need?
Tess-4-27B has 28.0B parameters. These estimates use the same formula as the VRAM calculator: weights, plus about 15% for a moderate-context KV cache and runtime overhead, plus a small engine floor.
| Quantisation | Estimated VRAM | Smallest card that fits |
|---|---|---|
| Q4_K_M (4-bit) | 18.9 GB | 24 GB |
| Q8_0 (8-bit) | 35.0 GB | 48 GB |
| FP16 (16-bit) | 65.2 GB | 80 GB |
Fastest GPUs for this model (best tok/s)
- RTX 3060 x218.8
Models with a similar footprint
| Model | Params | Q4_K_M weights |
|---|---|---|
| Bonsai-27B | 28B | 15.8 GB |
| Godoter-27B | 28B | 15.8 GB |
| Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated | 28B | 15.8 GB |
| Qwen3.5-27B | 28B | 15.8 GB |
| Qwen3.6-27B | 28B | 15.8 GB |
| Qwen3.6-27B-i1 | 28B | 15.8 GB |
| GPU | Model | Quant | Backend | Ctx | tok/s | prompt tok/s | VRAM GB | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 3060 x2 · 12 GB | Tess-4-27B | Q4_K_M | llama.cpp 13f2b28 | 512 | 18.8 ✓ | 523.7 | 19.4 | src |