Qwen3.8 27B
on M5 Max · Draw Things
Use cases
coding
Summary
User reports Qwen3.8 27B at ~980 t/s prefill on an M5 Max, and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 at ~900 t/s prefill.
Setup is the Draw Things inference engine, described as 1.2x to 1.6x faster on prefill than prior work for supported models.
The engine runs in a sandboxed macOS App Store package with Python, Node.js, Lean, and Bash tools, and can run multiple tasks concurrently on the same laptop.