Thank you for the reply Yes moe models are much faster and usually proportionately dumber… I run some tests and the 26b results are unexpectedly good, hence was the question .

https://www.glukhov.org/ai-devtools/opencode/llms-comparison/

Apples and oranges- don’t care how they are organised internally when they deliver quality output. Faster better, but if they don’t deliver - who cares.