qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Qwen3-30B:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Global Score

66 vs 91

Hardware Fit

91 vs 98

Quality Score

55 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx Qwen3-30B:30b

MachineMacBook ProHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXML

CPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Cores1820

RAM64 GB55 GB

GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPU

OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx Qwen3-30B:30b

Tokens/sec33.280.5

First chunk7 ms158 ms

TTFT311 ms158 ms

Load timeN/A21.8 s

Memory usage0.5 GB20.3 GB

Memory %1%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Qwen3-30B:30b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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:30b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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