A 15% Qwen3.8 build keeps nearly all the reasoning
The interesting result is not that Qwen3.8-27B can be compressed. It is that a task-aware quant reportedly scores 82.81% on the reasoning test, just 0.78 points behind BF16 at roughly 15% of the size, while byte-matched Unsloth IQ2_S reaches 77.34%. That points to a practical rule for local inference: where you spend the remaining bits matters more than the headline bit count.