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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
80 vs 80
Hardware Fit
52 vs 85
Quality Score
92 vs 78

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M4 MaxIntel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1680
RAM128 GB252 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxTU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec16.165.1
First chunk14 ms289 ms
TTFT5.8 s4.2 s
Load time8.5 s4.6 s
Memory usage0.0 GB5.6 GB
Memory %0%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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