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qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
76 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
65 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMicrosoft WSLMacBook Pro
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M5 Max
Cores1218
RAM8 GB64 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 26.04.1 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec161.333.2
First chunk51 ms7 ms
TTFT51 ms311 ms
Load time5.2 sN/A
Memory usage1.6 GB0.5 GB
Memory %21%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong 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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