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qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 4.4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
83 vs 81
Hardware Fit
96 vs 68
Quality Score
78 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMac StudioMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Max
Cores1216
RAM96 GB128 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec90.616.4
First chunk159 ms5 ms
TTFT159 ms742 ms
Load time5.8 sN/A
Memory usage42.5 GB38.5 GB
Memory %44%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
18/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
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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