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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-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 31, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
87 vs 81
Hardware Fit
83 vs 72
Quality Score
88 vs 85

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineMacBook ProDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4 MaxIntel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1616
RAM128 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
Tokens/sec29.124.2
First chunk9 ms1607 ms
TTFT650 ms1.6 s
Load timeN/A66.4 s
Memory usage21.0 GB22.7 GB
Memory %16%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
28/50
TTFT
14/20
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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

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