95.7% SimpleQA on a Single RTX 3090: Qwen3.6-27B with Agentic Search
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The Achievement
An r/LocalLLaMA post (297 points) from the LDR maintainer reports 95.7% on OpenAI SimpleQA benchmark, fully locally on a single RTX 3090 with 24GB VRAM.
Setup
- Hardware: RTX 3090, 24GB
- Model: Qwen3.6:27b via Ollama
- Strategy: LangGraph agent with tool-calling and parallel subtopic decomposition
Why It Matters
SimpleQA is where frontier cloud models score 90 to 98%. Reaching 95.7% locally on consumer hardware is a meaningful milestone. Combining local LLM reasoning with agentic web search dramatically outperforms single-pass inference.
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