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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
78 vs 59
Hardware Fit
86 vs 63
Quality Score
74 vs 58

Hardware

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MachineMacBook Pro
CPUAMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core ProcessorApple M5 Max
Cores2418
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 TiApple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200macOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec48.518.3
First chunk202 ms4 ms
TTFT4.3 s530 ms
Load time4.2 sN/A
Memory usage5.5 GB38.5 GB
Memory %9%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest