Qwen3.8-27B Local Test: Fact-Extraction F1 Ties Qwen3.6, Decode Speed Drops 16%

KitchenAmoeba4438 · reddit · 2026-08-15

In a local fact-extraction head-to-head, Qwen3.8-27B scored 0.7030 F1 vs Qwen3.6-27B's 0.7177, a statistically insignificant difference (CI includes 0), so it's a tie. Decode throughput fell from 85.6 to 72.1 tokens/s (16%), but Qwen3.8 produced shorter answers, lowering end-to-end latency. The author notes Qwen3.8 shows massive gains on benchmarks it was trained on, but not elsewhere, questioning benchmark utility.

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