Power user finds 27B local LLM already saturates his real-world use cases
OvertaxedOne · reddit · 2026-09-24
A local-LLM user ran Qwen FN on a Strix box for days (30-40 TPS gen, 900-1000 TPS prefill in real workloads) and found it barely distinguishable from 27B in daily capability. He now escalates to cloud mainly for speed or context, rarely intelligence — another data point that 'good enough is good enough.'
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