#BenchMarkIng

I test Unsloth GGUFs of Qwen3.8 27B (Q4_K_M, UD-Q2_K_XL, UD-IQ1_S) with llama.cpp on GPQA Diamond, IFBench, Terminal-Bench 2.1. Q4_K_M matches BF16 abd fits an RTX 4090.

There's been a lot of talk about the vulnpocalypse, to which I don't have much to add because I'm not a security person, but I haven't seen much discussion on the closely related (and to be fair, less serious, issue), the benchmarkpocalypse.

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