[Ritewut]

Tokens per second. The difference between 8B and something like 16B is not as big as you might think in practical usage and 8B is a lot faster and interactive than 16B but there are certain things where it is useful to farm it out to the large model.

[cptskippy]

Exactly this.

Creating conversation titles and parsing HTML/JSON don't benefit from 27B models.

The B70 can run both models comfortably side-by-side so it makes better use of time and resources.

[Natalia724]

Agree. For local coding help, latency often matters more than raw benchmark quality. A slightly weaker model that answers immediately changes how often you reach for it.