I feel like you definitely can get away with as much as even 5, but if you actually look at the CLI, it will tell you how many draft tokens actually got accepted. In some situations like writing simple text, over 90% of my two draft tokens get accepted so setting it to five would have made it faster. However if you run a task which requires heavy reasoning, even two draft tokens start approaching close to only 60%. Considering Qwen3.8-27B overthinks more than an anxious teenage girl, you should generally with two. If you take my example with the quant dropped to UD-Q5_K_XL with 262K tokens and reasoning low for a task that isn’t actually complex, just long, then go right ahead and let it run with 5.

Edit: excuse the horrendous grammar, I was distracted

I’m using this on Linux, so the first two lines won’t apply to you. Besides that, you are completely right, llama.cpp with the SYCL backend and MTP is the fastest way to run LLMs on Intel Arc GPUs, it’s just braindead people and bots on Reddit repeating the same line while they run a NVIDIA GPU and Ollama.

source /opt/intel/oneapi/setvars.sh
/opt/llama.cpp-sycl/bin/llama-server \
  --model /path/to/your/model/Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q6_K_XL.gguf \
  --device SYCL0 \
  --n-gpu-layers 999 \
  --load-mode none \
  --flash-attn on \
  --jinja \
  --reasoning-preserve \
  --ctx-size 100000 \
  --cache-type-k q8_0 \
  --cache-type-v q8_0 \
  --temp 1.0 \
  --top-p 0.95 \
  --top-k 20 \
  --min-p 0.00 \
  --presence-penalty 0.0 \
  --repeat-penalty 1.0 \
  --spec-type draft-mtp \
  --spec-draft-n-max 2 \
  --port 9931

Huh, my B70 gets peaks of 37 tok/s TG and 800 tok/s PP, what are your settings?

I think there are two sides to this.

1. You are right, I’d rather just get them on Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC than goddamn ChromeOS.

2. ChromeOS will likely lower the bar for switching to a Linux distro so you might consider it a stepping stone. A stepping stone with nails and spiders coming out of it, but still a stepping stone nonetheless.

Hey guy it probably feels like magic because you’re completely overselling where we’re at in terms of this kind of technology

It feels like magic because that’s what you are selling.

Man that article gave me so many questions. First, how in over their head is the author? And second, who in their right mind would EVER want that? It’s framed as such an innovative and exciting new thing, meanwhile I’m reading this and have to wonder if these people played Cyberpunk and liked what they saw.