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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

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OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 77
Hardware Fit
52 vs 94
Quality Score
92 vs 70

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b deepseek-r1:7b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
Cores1610
RAM128 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b deepseek-r1:7b
Tokens/sec16.122.2
First chunk14 ms285 ms
TTFT5.8 s285 ms
Load time8.5 s0.8 s
Memory usage0.0 GB7.6 GB
Memory %0%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

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Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
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

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Reasoning
14/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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