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qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 77
Hardware Fit
66 vs 67
Quality Score
86 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.8:27b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineAZW GTR ProMac mini
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M4 Pro
Cores3214
RAM125 GB64 GB
GPURadeon 8060SApple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8:27b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec18.420.3
First chunk587 ms4216 ms
TTFT587 ms4.2 s
Load time7.4 sN/A
Memory usage17.4 GB5.6 GB
Memory %14%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8:27b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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