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Qwen3.8-27B on the iPhone 18 Neural Engine at 15–70 tok/s (1.5 bpw)


Confirmed 24K context on iPhone with both K/V on int8. Delta net stays FP16. Decoding also peaks at 70 tok/s with easy to predict context. Apple Neural Engine on A20 is fast πŸš€

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