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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 31, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900H

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
83 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
75 vs 55

Hardware

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MachineMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. Stealth GS77 12UHMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-12900HApple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUIntel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPUApple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200macOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec54.033.2
First chunk68 ms7 ms
TTFT68 ms311 ms
Load time6.1 sN/A
Memory usage5.8 GB0.5 GB
Memory %18%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak 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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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest