nemotron-3.5-lightning:latest
OLLAMA GGUFnemotron_h_moe · 32.9B · Q4_K_M
Aug 17, 2026 · Cortex-X925
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit
Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max
Global Score
87 vs 59
Hardware Fit
80 vs 63
Quality Score
90 vs 58
Hardware
nemotron-3.5-light… qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10MacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM122 GB64 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced
Performance
nemotron-3.5-light… qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec84.118.3
First chunk371 ms4 ms
TTFT30.0 s530 ms
Load time0.3 sN/A
Memory usage24.9 GB38.5 GB
Memory %20%60%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
nemotron-3.5-lightning:…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30
Quality
nemotron-3.5-lightning:…
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
13/15
Math
14/15
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
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
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