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Qwen 35B-A3B MoE vs 27B dense in local coding tests: ~4× faster, much smaller quality gap than I expected
I compared Qwen 35B-A3B MoE against Qwen 27B dense on a series of local coding-maintenance tasks. On my R9700/llama.cpp setup, the MoE model generated about 3.9× faster (~116 vs ~30 tok/s), but the coding-quality difference was much smaller than I expected. Both usually handled ordinary bug fixes and multi-file changes