Qwen3.8-27B MTP Quants on M5 Max: oQ4e Best Balance
DerTomsn · reddit · 2026-08-31
Author benchmarked Qwen3.8-27B MTP from oQ2e to oQ8e on Apple M5 Max. Results show: oQ2e is unusable; oQ3e offers good quality; oQ4e is the sweet spot balancing speed (36.6 tok/s) and quality (86.8); oQ8e delivers peak quality (87) but with slowest speed and 2x memory footprint.
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