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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen3.5:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
87 vs 77
Hardware Fit
83 vs 53
Quality Score
88 vs 87

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen3.5:35b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M4 MaxIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1620
RAM128 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen3.5:35b
Tokens/sec29.116.0
First chunk9 ms719 ms
TTFT650 ms719 ms
Load timeN/A17.8 s
Memory usage21.0 GB25.0 GB
Memory %16%79%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
33/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:35b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:35b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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