As someone who uses Opus daily for professional work and Qwen3.8-27B for all my private stuff, yes, Opus sub is faster for me, but I'm only rocking an R9700. If you're lucky enough to have sold a kidney on the blackmarket and purchased a 5090 and you're running ninfer, then actually... I think you'd be seeing fairly comparable performance!
When you hear stories like "Opus 5 thought for 20 minutes and then denied my request" it really puts wind in this sails of Local LMs