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OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 70.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
47 vs 59
Hardware Fit
51 vs 63
Quality Score
45 vs 58

Hardware

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MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM122 GB64 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec4.718.3
First chunk557 ms4 ms
TTFT557 ms530 ms
Load time52.6 sN/A
Memory usage49.5 GB38.5 GB
Memory %41%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
4/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

Quality

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate 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
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