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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

vicuna:13b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 13B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
87 vs 59
Hardware Fit
83 vs 84
Quality Score
88 vs 48

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b vicuna:13b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
Cores1610
RAM128 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b vicuna:13b
Tokens/sec29.113.4
First chunk9 msN/A
TTFT650 ms438 ms
Load timeN/A0.6 s
Memory usage21.0 GB10.3 GB
Memory %16%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

vicuna:13b

Speed
24/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

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

vicuna:13b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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