Qwen 3.8 Tested on 128GB Mac: Smarter but Memory-Hungry

Tests on a 128GB MacBook Pro M5 Max via MTPLX show Qwen 3.8 Flash Next is smarter and faster than the 27B model but needs about 80GB of RAM, while throughput drops sharply as context windows grow.

2026-09-01 ~ 2026-09-01 · 2 related posts

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