[self-reply because comment edit window ended]: I now have a head-to-head benchmark. On my wheezy laptop (specs in sibling comment), this new dense model, Qwen 3.8 27B, gets ~4 tokens/second on generation. The older mixture-of-experts model, Qwen 3.6-35B-A3B, gets ~20 tokens/s.

MoE is literally 5x times faster (on CPU) than comparable dense Qwen!

Tested:

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_XL

Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q4_K_XL