alt Hacker NewsThe smarter 27B is so fast with MTP I've found I really don't need the 35B-A3B. You get around 70tk/s on a M5 Max lowering to around 40tk/s at higher context sizes.
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seanmcdirmid • yesterday at 8:39 PM
I've benched 3.8 27B being significantly slower and less quality than 3.6 35B-A4B (both 4-bit quant, MTP, both using turboquant 4-bit served by oMLX), to the point that I'm not even using it right now (on an M3 Max). What's your use case and what did you observe? I might be missing something.
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quinncom • yesterday at 8:54 PM
I only get ~4 tok/sec on a M1 Pro with MTP.
I would suggest careful benchmarking. I actually tested and benchmarked, and the new Qwen3.8-27B model is actually slower with MTP on my M4 Max. MTP only gains anything when generating long code sequences, which is very unlikely as the model spends most of its time thinking, not generating code, even if you use it for coding (which I don't).
I get 20 tokens/s on an M4 Max (larger GPU).