Qwen3.8-27B-FP8: First Benchmarks on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell

Qwen3.8 is out, and it’s a dense 27B that Qwen positions as the most capable generation in its open-model family. Before I commit my RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell to it, I’m running a four-part test: quality (this post), quantization (FP8 vs. NVFP4), long context (the 1M token claim), and thinking depth (the four reasoning levels). This is the first data point: the FP8 variant on BenchLocal.app, run…