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gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
94 vs 59
Hardware Fit
92 vs 63
Quality Score
95 vs 58

Hardware

gpt-oss:20b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1418
RAM48 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

gpt-oss:20b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec54.518.3
First chunk318 ms4 ms
TTFT2.9 s530 ms
Load time4.0 sN/A
Memory usage16.4 GB38.5 GB
Memory %34%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

gpt-oss:20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30

Quality

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest