Bonsai 2 27B vs Qwen 3.8 27B on a MacBook Pro M5 Max
We ran ternary Bonsai 2 27B and its 4-bit parent Qwen 3.8 27B on the same engine on a 36GB MacBook Pro. Quality matched, Bonsai used 7 GB less memory, decoded faster, and held a 148K-token prompt that Qwen could not.
