Qwen3.8 reasoning effort test: X-High offers best visual fidelity at 7x cost
Danmoreng · reddit · 2026-08-16
A user compared Low, Medium, and X-High reasoning efforts for Qwen3.8-27B. In an SVG generation task, X-High achieved the highest visual score (24/25) but took 717s; Low mode took only 111s with a score of 21.8. Tests were run on an RTX 5080 Laptop GPU using llama.cpp.
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