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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
66 vs 90
Hardware Fit
91 vs 97
Quality Score
55 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3:14b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M1 Max
Cores1810
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M1 Max
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3:14b
Tokens/sec33.224.0
First chunk7 ms300 ms
TTFT311 ms300 ms
Load timeN/A3.6 s
Memory usage0.5 GB13.8 GB
Memory %1%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3:14b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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