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qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
90 vs 83
Hardware Fit
97 vs 68
Quality Score
87 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3:14b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:14b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec24.027.6
First chunk300 ms10 ms
TTFT300 ms4.6 s
Load time3.6 sN/A
Memory usage13.8 GB21.0 GB
Memory %43%16%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:14b

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
32/50
TTFT
6/20
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

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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