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Are you running Qwen 3.8 27b or Qwen Flash Next?

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Curious about what people are preferring, if you have the hardware. I have m3 Max 96gb and both run, and largely feel identical, but prefill on qwen 27b is faster. Is there anything / anyone working on anything to improve pp with mlx? Branching question: is anyone working on a harness that works wi…

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  1. 2026-09-09 23:42 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Running qwen 3.8 27B iq3 xxs on RTX 3060.
  2. 2026-09-08 15:53 · r/LocalLLM
    Running Qwen 3.8 27B at Q4 on 16GB VRAM at 200K CTX at 50t/s
  3. 2026-09-07 15:25 · r/LocalLLaMA
    Are you running Qwen 3.8 27b or Qwen Flash Next?

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