Qwen3.8 27B

User benchmarks 48 local models as agents on an M1 Max 64GB, with qwen3.8-27b Q4_K_M reaching 16.9 tok/s at 64k context. Setup is LM Studio with GGUF weights, 15.7 GB of memory at 64k context, and 16 multi-step tool tasks plus 10 real-world failure cases run 3 times each. The model scored 99% quality, 100% agent and 98% on the real cases with 0 serious slips in 30 runs at 51 s per task. Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B is the faster pick at 52.4 tok/s with 94% quality and 98% agent. Prompt cache made a follow-up turn on the same long agent prefix 152x faster than cold start on GGUF models (median of 41).