alt Hacker Newsi think the perplexity is more important than tokens per second. tokens per second is relatively useless in my opinion. there is nothing worse than getting bad results returned to you very quickly and confidently.
ive been working with quite a few open weight models for the last year and especially for things like images, models from 6 months would return garbage data quickly, but these days qwen 3.5 is incredible, even the 9b model.
No, getting bad results slowly is much worse. Bad results quickly and you can make adjustments.
But yes, if there is a choice I want quality over speed. At same quality, I definitely want speed.