qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-opus-distilled-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

89 vs 34

Hardware Fit

95 vs 21

Quality Score

87 vs 39

Hardware

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3.5-27b-claude…

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1410

RAM64 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3-8b qwen3.5-27b-claude…

Tokens/sec33.46.1

First chunk257 ms7 ms

TTFT257 ms22.9 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage4.3 GB19.8 GB

Memory %7%82%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Speed

12/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

9/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Reasoning

1/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

8/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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