Liu Liu(@liuliu):I don’t know why this needs to be re-iterated: if you are lucky and having a M5 Max / M5 Ultra, don’t use Qwen 3.8 27B, you will be much happier with a low-bit DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017. A good 2-bit quant for that model is just so much better than 27B dense.

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Liu Liu@liuliu

2026.11.11 15:28

I don’t know why this needs to be re-iterated: if you are lucky and having a M5 Max / M5 Ultra, don’t use Qwen 3.8 27B, you will be much happier with a low-bit DeepSeek 4.1 Flash 1017. A good 2-bit quant for that model is just so much better than 27B dense.