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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 1.2B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 60
Hardware Fit
52 vs 80
Quality Score
92 vs 52

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1614
RAM128 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b
Tokens/sec16.1227.0
First chunk14 ms60 ms
TTFT5.8 s30.0 s
Load time8.5 s0.7 s
Memory usage0.0 GB2.6 GB
Memory %0%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

lfm2.5-thinking:1.2b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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