Qwen 3.8 27B vs 3.6: quality up 8% but runtime 5x longer and 4x more tokens
DerTomsn · reddit · 2026-09-04
A community benchmark on oMLX compares Qwen 3.8 27B against 3.6: quality score rises from 81.1 to 87.7 (+8%), but speed drops 16% (35→29 tok/s), runtime grows 5x (8m51s→44m39s), and output tokens jump from 18K to 78K. Better quality, but you pay heavily in time and tokens.
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