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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

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 84
Hardware Fit
66 vs 94
Quality Score
86 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.8:27b qwen3.5:9b-mlx
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Pro
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M1 Pro
Cores3210
RAM125 GB16 GB
GPURadeon 8060SApple M1 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8:27b qwen3.5:9b-mlx
Tokens/sec18.425.0
First chunk587 ms357 ms
TTFT587 ms357 ms
Load time7.4 s3.8 s
Memory usage17.4 GB8.4 GB
Memory %14%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8:27b

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

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

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