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qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
90 vs 66
Hardware Fit
97 vs 91
Quality Score
87 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3:14b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:14b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec24.033.2
First chunk300 ms7 ms
TTFT300 ms311 ms
Load time3.6 sN/A
Memory usage13.8 GB0.5 GB
Memory %43%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:14b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong 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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