qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

81 vs 76

Hardware Fit

68 vs 51

Quality Score

87 vs 87

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b gemma-3-27b-it-qat

MachineMacBook ProMac mini

CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Pro

Cores1614

RAM128 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Tokens/sec16.48.9

First chunk5 ms3976 ms

TTFT742 ms4.0 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage38.5 GB15.7 GB

Memory %30%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed

18/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Speed

12/50

TTFT

9/20

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

gemma-3-27b-it-qat

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

17/20

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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