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Qwen3.8 vs Ornith 1.5 on a Mac: speed and code review

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On a Mac Studio M4 Max with 64 GB, Qwen3.8-27B with MTP does not replace the 35B mixture-of-experts model I already run. Measured on 12 October 2026 under oMLX 0.7.0, Qwen generated 55 tokens per second against 90, and took 3.46 seconds to produce its first token on an 800-token prompt against 0.49…

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  1. 2026-10-12 16:09 · DEV Community — AI
    Qwen3.8 vs Ornith 1.5 on a Mac: speed and code review

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