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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
66 vs 94
Hardware Fit
91 vs 92
Quality Score
55 vs 95

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx gpt-oss:20b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1814
RAM64 GB48 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx gpt-oss:20b
Tokens/sec33.254.5
First chunk7 ms318 ms
TTFT311 ms2.9 s
Load timeN/A4.0 s
Memory usage0.5 GB16.4 GB
Memory %1%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

gpt-oss:20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
29/30

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

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
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