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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 87
Hardware Fit
68 vs 79
Quality Score
87 vs 90

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b gpt-oss:20b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
Cores1610
RAM128 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b gpt-oss:20b
Tokens/sec16.426.4
First chunk5 ms505 ms
TTFT742 ms6.7 s
Load timeN/A10.5 s
Memory usage38.5 GB13.1 GB
Memory %30%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

gpt-oss:20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
23/30

Quality

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

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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