qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

granite3.1-dense:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

66 vs 74

Hardware Fit

91 vs 91

Quality Score

55 vs 66

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx granite3.1-dense:8b

MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air

CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4

Cores1810

RAM64 GB32 GB

GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4

OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx granite3.1-dense:8b

Tokens/sec33.218.8

First chunk7 msN/A

TTFT311 ms308 ms

Load timeN/A0.6 s

Memory usage0.5 GB13.0 GB

Memory %1%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

granite3.1-dense:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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