cogito:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

77 vs 66

Hardware Fit

92 vs 91

Quality Score

70 vs 55

Hardware

cogito:8b qwen3.8-27b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

cogito:8b qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Tokens/sec21.033.2

First chunk312 ms7 ms

TTFT312 ms311 ms

Load time0.8 sN/A

Memory usage10.4 GB0.5 GB

Memory %33%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

cogito:8b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

cogito:8b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

3/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

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