[Splash Engine] Qwen3.8-27B in native 8-bit at 37–55 tok/s on Apple Silicon: Extending Splash to Q8, 256k context scaling, and the "Reasoning Cliff"
https://preview.redd.it/nulsv53o8vqh1.png?width=4500&format=png&auto=webp&s=74765dbd409f4c221640f9f6000a685f6fdbb242 Spent weekend benchmarking the Splash engine (by Incoai) and extending its architecture to native 8-bit on Apple Silicon (M5 Pro, 64 GB unified memory). Splash is a compiled C++ and…
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- 2026-09-21 12:34 · r/LocalLLM
[Splash Engine] Qwen3.8-27B in native 8-bit at 37–55 tok/s on Apple Silicon: Extending Splash to Q8, 256k context scaling, and the "Reasoning Cliff" - 2026-09-21 12:25 · r/LocalLLaMA
[Splash Engine] Qwen3.8-27B in native 8-bit at 37–55 tok/s on Apple Silicon: Extending Splash to Q8, 256k context scaling, and the "Reasoning Cliff"