qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

66 vs 65

Hardware Fit

91 vs 73

Quality Score

55 vs 62

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3.5:4b

MachineMacBook ProAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M5 MaxAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1832

RAM64 GB125 GB

GPUApple M5 MaxAMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3.5:4b

Tokens/sec33.245.7

First chunk7 ms180 ms

TTFT311 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A5.3 s

Memory usage0.5 GB16.2 GB

Memory %1%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

0/20

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

8/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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