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Users Share Qwen 3.8 27B Token Speeds on Apple Silicon and RTX GPUs

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Reddit users report Qwen 3.8 27B speeds: 17-20 tok/s on an M5 Pro MacBook Pro via LM Studio, and 74 tok/s on an RTX 5080 with IQ4_XS-Smaller quantization and MTP enabled. Another user asks about RTX Pro 4000 SFF performance.

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Timeline · 3 reports

  1. 2026-08-24 03:20 · r/LocalLLM
    Qwen 3.8-27B on RTX 5080
  2. 2026-08-22 12:16 · r/LocalLLM
    Any of you running Qwen 3.8 27B on an RTX Pro 4000 SFF Blackwell?
  3. 2026-08-22 04:48 · r/LocalLLM
    people running Qwen 3.8 27B on apple silicon… whats your best token generation speed and how did you attain it?

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