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deepseek-r1:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
22 vs 59
Hardware Fit
69 vs 63
Quality Score
2 vs 58

Hardware

deepseek-r1:latest qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M5 Max
Cores618
RAM7 GB64 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

deepseek-r1:latest qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec9.618.3
First chunk1300 ms4 ms
TTFT1.3 s530 ms
Load time19.9 sN/A
Memory usage4.8 GB38.5 GB
Memory %65%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

deepseek-r1:latest

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
18/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

Quality

deepseek-r1:latest

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest