qwen3.8-27b-fable-fusion-f711-gain-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · MXFP4

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 4B · Q4_1

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score

88 vs 65

Hardware Fit

70 vs 96

Quality Score

96 vs 51

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec30.499.6

First chunk27 ms18 ms

TTFT4.4 s1.6 s

Load timeN/A4.8 s

Memory usage19.9 GB0.3 GB

Memory %16%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

34/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

16/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

15/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

9/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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