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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

phi3:3.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
66 vs 64
Hardware Fit
91 vs 100
Quality Score
55 vs 48

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx phi3:3.8b
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 phi3:3.8b
Tokens/sec33.242.0
First chunk7 msN/A
TTFT311 ms142 ms
Load timeN/A1.1 s
Memory usage0.5 GB16.0 GB
Memory %1%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

phi3:3.8b

Speed
40/50
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

phi3:3.8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
10/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest