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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
66 vs 90
Hardware Fit
91 vs 98
Quality Score
55 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineMacBook ProDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1816
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec33.247.1
First chunk7 ms1063 ms
TTFT311 ms1.1 s
Load timeN/A17.3 s
Memory usage0.5 GB22.9 GB
Memory %1%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

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