qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

66 vs 71

Hardware Fit

91 vs 86

Quality Score

55 vs 65

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx mistral-nemo:12b

MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air

CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4

Cores1810

RAM64 GB32 GB

GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4

OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx mistral-nemo:12b

Tokens/sec33.214.6

First chunk7 msN/A

TTFT311 ms371 ms

Load timeN/A1.0 s

Memory usage0.5 GB13.3 GB

Memory %1%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

30/20

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

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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