Cheapest hardware for Qwen 3.6: both 27B and 35B-A3B

- "Qwen 3.6/3.5 27b > Qwen 3.6/3.5 35b > Gemma4 31b > Qwen 3.5 9b > Gemma4 12b > Gemma4 26b", people say

- "Qwen 3.6 for coding & Agentic, Gemma4 for human sounding text", people say

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So I have been eyeing the RTX 3090 24 GB (or sometimes its cheaper Chinese companion RTX 3080 20 GB), and the controversial Tesla v100 32 GB.

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Target: 40 tok/s for both these Qwen 3.6

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It seems the RTX 3090 24 GB might have a brighter future, when (1) the v100 32GB (both the PCIe and SXM2) will soon be discontinued in support, (2) China will soon release Mythos/Fable equivalent in End 2026-Mid 2027.

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Alibaba asks me $2000 for a Single RTX 3090 system that is upgradable to dual RTX 3090 later.

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Is there a cheaper way somewhere?

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| Component | Model | Price |

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| CPU | Ryzen 5 5600X | $132.25 |

| GPU | MSI RTX 3090 VENTUS 3X 24G | $1,088.15 |

| Motherboard | ASUS TUF X570-PLUS | $108.81 |

| RAM | Kingston FURY Beast 32GB DDR4 | $251.11 |

| SSD | Kingston NV3 1TB NVMe | $131.41 |

| PSU | Great Wall 1650W 80+ Gold | $130.41 |

| Cooler | Valkyrie AQ125 ARGB | $14.90 |

| Case | Phanteks PK620 Full Tower | $120.54 |

| Fans | ARGB 120mm ×12 | $18.06 |

| **TOTAL** | | **$1,995.65** |

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