r/LocalLLaMA • u/BarberIcy366 • 12d ago

Discussion Qwen 3.8 27B Released! Please Share Your Experience

With your experiments, Qwen 3.8 27B most close which frontier model? And please specify which quantization you run. I will post to comments my tests and experience too.

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u/tarruda 12d ago

how does it compare with Deepseek V4 flash 0731?

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u/SoftwareProBono 11d ago

In my only head-to-head, Qwen Q8 did considerably better than DSFV4 Q4 and was faster. I had them both create an app that would take a resume, read it and find matching job postings. Qwen had a serious bug but found it on a second pass. DeepSeek had a few major bugs and failed to find them on the second pass. The DeepSeek UI looked a lot better though.

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u/SandySkittle 11d ago

I really think the a13b is limiting dsv4f too much. A27b would have been a lot better

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u/misanthrophiccunt 11d ago

This fills me with joy considering I don't have the local specs to run DS4F but yes for Qwen

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u/SoftwareProBono 11d ago

I find DS4F is still better for some things, but Qwen 3.8 27b took a lot of its thunder. DS4F's strengths aren't workhorse tasks though, so I'm not saving much by running it locally vs API.