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mlx-community/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
74 vs 83
Hardware Fit
100 vs 68
Quality Score
63 vs 90

Hardware

mlx-community/Llam… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Llam… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec50.627.6
First chunk257 ms10 ms
TTFT257 ms4.6 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.7 GB21.0 GB
Memory %2%16%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
32/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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