llamaperf

Qwen3.8 27B Hemmingway-1

on M5 Max

Tone: positive
Oct 3, 2026
Throughput
31.8 t/s gen
Quant
oQ8e

Use cases

creative-writingrp

Summary

User reports Altworld's Hemmingway-1, a 27B fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B, at ~31.8 tok/s average across 3 runs on an M5 Max, with ~29-31 GB VRAM peak. Setup is MTP on with thinking on; the model is an oQ8e quant. User compares it against the base Qwen3.8-27B-oQ8e-mtp on the same machine and settings, where an LLM judge scored one Qwen run 95.35 vs 94.65 for Hemmingway. User finds Hemmingway reads more like human-written prose while Qwen feels technical, and recommends the base Qwen for generalist or coding work.