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openai/gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gpt-oss · 20B · MXFP4

Excellent

Nov 9, 2026 · Apple M3 Max

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
91 vs 87
Hardware Fit
90 vs 83
Quality Score
91 vs 88

Hardware

openai/gpt-oss-20b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M3 MaxApple M4 Max
Cores1616
RAM128 GB128 GB
GPUApple M3 MaxApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 27.2macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

openai/gpt-oss-20b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec95.129.1
First chunk3 ms9 ms
TTFT2.5 s650 ms
Load time9.2 sN/A
Memory usage0.0 GB21.0 GB
Memory %0%16%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

Quality

openai/gpt-oss-20b

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

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
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