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qwen2.5-7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
82 vs 80
Hardware Fit
92 vs 52
Quality Score
78 vs 92

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-7b-instruct qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec22.016.1
First chunk477 ms14 ms
TTFT477 ms5.8 s
Load timeN/A8.5 s
Memory usage4.0 GB0.0 GB
Memory %13%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
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
19/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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