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Qwen 3.8 27B: From Release to Community Benchmarks
Days after Qwen 3.8 27B shipped, community testers found it beating the prior 3.6 in bf16 web-design tasks and out-coding 30B-class rivals like Gemma 4 on local GPUs.
2026-08-14 ~ 2026-08-16 · 2 episodes · 6 posts
Episode 1 · Qwen 3.8 27B Released as Community Tests Performance and Speed (2026-08-14, 4 posts)
Qwen 3.8 27B has drawn strong community feedback, with users reporting better web design output than 3.6 at bf16 and about 22 tokens/s using q4 quantization with MTP, while debating whether the 27B model can beat the 122B Qwen 3.5 and how close it is to frontier models.
- Qwen 3.8 27B Released: Users Share Experiences and Compare with Frontier Models — BarberIcy366 · 2026-08-14
- Benchmark: Qwen 27B 3.8 outperforms 3.6 in web design tasks — ShadyShroomz · 2026-08-15
- Qwen 3.8 27B users report speeds and configs on Strict Halo — Acrobatic_Stress1388 · 2026-08-16
- Community debates if Qwen 3.8 27B outperforms the larger 3.5 122B — MackThax · 2026-08-16
Episode 2 · Qwen2.5-32B Beats Qwen2 and Gemma 4 in Coding, Agentic Benchmarks (2026-08-14, 2 posts)
Users benchmarked Qwen2.5-32B (dubbed 'Qwen3.8' in posts) against Qwen2-32B and Gemma 4 locally on a 24GB GPU, finding Qwen2.5 leading on coding and agentic benchmarks among the similarly sized open models.
- Qwen3.8 27B vs Qwen3.6 27B vs Gemma 4 31B: Comparing 24GB GPU Options — MaySaki2 · 2026-08-14
- Qwen2.5 vs Qwen2 vs Gemma 4: Benchmarking 30B-class open models — MaySaki2 · 2026-08-15