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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
81 vs 76
Hardware Fit
68 vs 100
Quality Score
87 vs 65

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen3:1.7b
MachineMacBook ProMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M4 MaxAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1612
RAM128 GB8 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen3:1.7b
Tokens/sec16.4161.3
First chunk5 ms51 ms
TTFT742 ms51 ms
Load timeN/A5.2 s
Memory usage38.5 GB1.6 GB
Memory %30%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

qwen3:1.7b

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

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

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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