95.7% SimpleQA on a Single RTX 3090: Qwen3.6-27B with Agentic Search

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.