A newer, well-recommended coding model fits my 32GB GPU at max quality and runs faster than the one I keep. I kept the old one anyway, and the numbers say I was right to.

Qwen3.6-27B scored higher on BFCL. Both models scored 58/59 on the real workload. One answers in 0.87s, the other in 4.27s.

A ~31B Mixture-of-Experts model at 4-bit, on one 32GB card, that beat a dense 32B on the real BFCL function-calling benchmark. What it is, what it is good for, and the numbers.

I run Qwen3-Coder on a spare RTX 5090 and point my coding agent at it over the LAN. Private, fast, no per-token bill, secured with an API key, and watched on a dashboard. Here is the whole build.