qwen3.8-27b-mlx
LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN27B
Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max
deepseek-r1:1.5b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
Global Score
66 vs 60
Hardware Fit
91 vs 90
Quality Score
55 vs 47
Hardware
qwen3.8-27b-mlx deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-A78AE
Cores186
RAM64 GB7 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3.8-27b-mlx deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec33.234.6
First chunk7 ms5314 ms
TTFT311 ms5.3 s
Load timeN/A5.1 s
Memory usage0.5 GB1.1 GB
Memory %1%15%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
10/20
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
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Reasoning
11/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
4/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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