qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

66 vs 65

Hardware Fit

91 vs 96

Quality Score

55 vs 52

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx starling-lm:7b

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 starling-lm:7b

Tokens/sec33.223.8

First chunk7 ms232 ms

TTFT311 ms232 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage0.5 GB5.3 GB

Memory %1%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

starling-lm:7b

Speed

46/50

TTFT

20/20

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

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

3/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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