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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

rnj-1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 8.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 80
Hardware Fit
52 vs 93
Quality Score
92 vs 74

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b rnj-1:8b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M1 Pro
Cores1610
RAM128 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b rnj-1:8b
Tokens/sec16.122.3
First chunk14 ms404 ms
TTFT5.8 s404 ms
Load time8.5 s3.7 s
Memory usage0.0 GB8.3 GB
Memory %0%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

rnj-1:8b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

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

rnj-1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
5/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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