qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

dolphin-phi:2.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

66 vs 61

Hardware Fit

91 vs 100

Quality Score

55 vs 44

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx dolphin-phi:2.7b

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 dolphin-phi:2.7b

Tokens/sec33.256.1

First chunk7 msN/A

TTFT311 ms108 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage0.5 GB2.2 GB

Memory %1%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Speed

40/50

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

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

2/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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