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Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

4-bit quantization remains effective for Qwen3.8, while 1-bit fails, guiding deployment choices.

Steady
Signal score
29
Sources
2
agreeing on qwen3.8
Trajectory
Steady
7-day est. ~22

Why this scored 29

every term, weighted
Velocity+0.0 / 40

Engagement gained per hour since the last capture, against the fastest item on its own source

Acceleration+11.3 / 25

Whether that velocity is itself speeding up, as a per-hour rate

Cross-source spread+12.5 / 25

How many independent communities are talking about the same entity

Recency+7.9 / 10

Decays to zero over 14 days

Saturation penalty3.2 / 30

Subtracted once something is big and old — we rank what's next, not what's peaked

Composite28.6

Weights are hand-tuned, not learned — we're calibrating them against realized trends as history accumulates. On a topic's first sighting there's no previous reading to compare against, so acceleration starts from a neutral prior rather than a measurement, and velocity falls back to engagement over its whole lifetime until a second reading exists. Full methodology

Outlook

low confidence · estimate, not a guarantee

7-day

~22

range 034

14-day

~22

range 037

30-day

~23

range 042

Signal history

7-day window (free)
1530

projected trajectory (estimate, not a guarantee)

Entities

qwen3.8
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