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Qwen3.8 27B ties Opus 5.5 on Korean RAG benchmark

A user on Reddit conducted a benchmark comparing the Qwen3.8 27B model against Anthropic's Opus 5.5 on a Korean RAG dataset. The Qwen3.8 27B model, running on a 3090 GPU, achieved a slightly higher score than Opus 5.5, with the difference deemed statistically insignificant. The user noted that the primary bottleneck in their RAG setup was PDF parsing rather than the LLM's performance, and also shared results for other models like gpt-oss 20B and Raon-1 mini. AI

IMPACT Highlights that local LLMs are becoming competitive with top-tier models for specific tasks, with RAG pipeline components like PDF parsing becoming the main bottleneck.

RANK_REASON User-conducted benchmark comparing LLM performance on a specific task. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Qwen3.8 27B ties Opus 5.5 on Korean RAG benchmark

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  1. r/LocalLLaMA TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Front-University4363 ·

    qwen3.8 27B on my 3090 basically tied Opus 5.5 on a Korean RAG benchmark, which I did not expect

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>So I’ve been running local RAG over Korean PDFs for a while and my only evaluation was “yeah the answers look ok”. Finally sat down and used Allganize’s Korean RAG set since every question has a known answer and the page it’s on (300 questions, 6…