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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3:32b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 32.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
66 vs 79
Hardware Fit
91 vs 59
Quality Score
55 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3:32b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
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 qwen3:32b
Tokens/sec33.29.7
First chunk7 ms324 ms
TTFT311 ms324 ms
Load timeN/A24.5 s
Memory usage0.5 GB26.8 GB
Memory %1%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3:32b

Speed
9/50
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

qwen3:32b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
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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