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Apple Neural Engine Reverse-Engineered for Qwen 3.8 27B Inference

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A developer reverse-engineered Apple's Neural Engine to run Qwen 3.8 27B FP16 at 7-8 tok/s using 7W, while Mac users report 17-20 tok/s via LM Studio and RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell users seek speed benchmarks.

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Timeline · 3 reports

  1. 2026-08-22 12:16 · r/LocalLLM
    Any of you running Qwen 3.8 27B on an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell?
  2. 2026-08-22 04:48 · r/LocalLLM
    people running Qwen 3.8 27B on apple silicon… whats your best token generation speed and how did you attain it?
  3. 2026-08-21 12:02 · r/LocalLLM
    Running Qwen 3.8 27b FP16 on the Apple Neural Engine - 7 Watts of power to run a FP16 model @ 7 tok/s

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