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qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-budget

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
89 vs 65
Hardware Fit
96 vs 99
Quality Score
86 vs 51

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-… smollm2-1.7b-instr…
MachineMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51MacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core ProcessorApple M4
Cores1610
RAM31 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) GraphicsApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-… smollm2-1.7b-instr…
Tokens/sec48.528.5
First chunk39 ms393 ms
TTFT283 ms393 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage13.7 GB3.2 GB
Memory %44%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-budget

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3.8-27b-nvfp4-budget

Reasoning
16/20
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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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$ metrillm

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