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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
66 vs 89
Hardware Fit
91 vs 96
Quality Score
55 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Max
Cores1816
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.5.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec33.289.9
First chunk7 ms188 ms
TTFT311 ms188 ms
Load timeN/A4.0 s
Memory usage0.5 GB30.2 GB
Memory %1%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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