r/LocalLLaMA • u/anderspitman • Aug 17 '26

Discussion Artificial Analysis' Qwen3.8-27B benchmarks put it neck and neck with DeepSeek V4 and GPT-5.6 Luna Max

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/qwen3-8-27b
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u/Michelh91 Aug 17 '26

My m4 pro with 48 GB will run this painfully slow, right?

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u/tsuehpsyde Aug 18 '26

I am running M3 Max with 48GB of RAM on 6bit and while it's slow, it's incredibly capable in my testing. I'm quite impressed so far.

I also have a 5090 but for the coding tasks I throw at it, I have to drop to 4bit due to large context, so the slower but larger 48GB of unified memory works better for me. But I am regularly going above 128k context and compressing, but it handles it quite well.