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I ran Qwen3.8-27B against Opus, Sonnet, GPT and others. Results inside.

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I created a small testing rig to evaluate new open source models as they drop, and with the much anticipated release of Qwen3.8-27B, I was eager to see how it cross-compares with frontier and strong local models. The rig My test rig is an M5 Max MacBook Pro, 128GB. Locally I ran Qwen3.8-27B on xhig…

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  1. 2026-08-19 17:32 · r/LocalLLM
    I ran Qwen3.8-27B against Opus, Sonnet, GPT and others. Results inside.

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