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qwen2.5:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
84 vs 66
Hardware Fit
95 vs 91
Quality Score
79 vs 55

Hardware

qwen2.5:7b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:7b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec22.233.2
First chunkN/A7 ms
TTFT285 ms311 ms
Load time0.8 sN/A
Memory usage7.6 GB0.5 GB
Memory %24%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:7b

Speed
35/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen2.5:7b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate 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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$ metrillm

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