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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-2507-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 29, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
66 vs 83
Hardware Fit
91 vs 66
Quality Score
55 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3:30b-a3b-inst…
MachineMacBook ProDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1816
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec33.217.7
First chunk7 ms1244 ms
TTFT311 ms1.2 s
Load timeN/A20.5 s
Memory usage0.5 GB20.6 GB
Memory %1%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

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Speed
19/50
TTFT
17/20
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

qwen3:30b-a3b-instruct-…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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