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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

gemma4:12b-it-qat

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_0

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 88
Hardware Fit
52 vs 86
Quality Score
92 vs 89

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b gemma4:12b-it-qat
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1612
RAM128 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b gemma4:12b-it-qat
Tokens/sec16.130.0
First chunk14 ms686 ms
TTFT5.8 s7.1 s
Load time8.5 s5.4 s
Memory usage0.0 GB7.1 GB
Memory %0%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

gemma4:12b-it-qat

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

Quality

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

gemma4:12b-it-qat

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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