Depends what workload you expect to use it for. Different models for different tasks. Personally for agentic coding on an 8gb GPU I currently use either Groot 19b a3b, cyber tiel 35b a3b or orinth1.5 35b a3b, all in q4_k_m running with llama.cpp with context of 130k. Get about 30 tokens per second. My own benchmarking puts Groot just slightly ahead of sonnet 5, not quite 5.5 though.
Depends what workload you expect to use it for. Different models for different tasks. Personally for agentic coding on an 8gb GPU I currently use either Groot 19b a3b, cyber tiel 35b a3b or orinth1.5 35b a3b, all in q4_k_m running with llama.cpp with context of 130k. Get about 30 tokens per second. My own benchmarking puts Groot just slightly ahead of sonnet 5, not quite 5.5 though.