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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4_k_m

OPENAI GGUF
Good

Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
80 vs 62
Hardware Fit
52 vs 100
Quality Score
92 vs 46

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen3-vl-4b-instru…
MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M2 Max
Cores1612
RAM128 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen3-vl-4b-instru…
Tokens/sec16.167.2
First chunk14 ms66 ms
TTFT5.8 s68 ms
Load time8.5 s0.0 s
Memory usage0.0 GB0.2 GB
Memory %0%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4…

Speed
50/50
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

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
1/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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