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Qwen3.8-27B scored 29/30 on AIME 2026 with FP8 + xhigh reasoning — BF16 vs FP8 results

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I benchmarked Qwen3.8-27B on MathArena/aime_2026 dataset, comparing BF16 and FP8 weights at medium and xhigh reasoning effort. Interesting findings are: quantized FP8 xhigh is better than BF 16 medium equally good as 16 BF xhigh with better speed. On problem 7, both BF16 xhigh and quantized FP8 xhi…

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    Qwen3.8-27B scored 29/30 on AIME 2026 with FP8 + xhigh reasoning — BF16 vs FP8 results

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