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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

nemotron-3.5-lightning:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h_moe · 32.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 17, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
66 vs 87
Hardware Fit
91 vs 80
Quality Score
55 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx nemotron-3.5-light…
MachineMacBook ProASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1820
RAM64 GB122 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx nemotron-3.5-light…
Tokens/sec33.284.1
First chunk7 ms371 ms
TTFT311 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage0.5 GB24.9 GB
Memory %1%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

nemotron-3.5-lightning:…

Speed
50/50
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

nemotron-3.5-lightning:…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
13/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest