Qwen 3.8 in 4-bit hits 25 tok/s on an M3 Max — fully usable locally
AIandDesign · x · 2026-08-19
A user reports running Qwen 3.8 locally with 4-bit quantization on an M3 Max at roughly 25 tokens/sec. It's expected to get faster, but it's already totally usable — the author says it's effectively better than what GPT-4 offered, all on their own machine. "WILD."
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