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llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
46 vs 66
Hardware Fit
61 vs 91
Quality Score
40 vs 55

Hardware

llama3.1:8b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M5 Max
Cores618
RAM7 GB64 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama3.1:8b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec7.833.2
First chunk1625 ms7 ms
TTFT1.6 s311 ms
Load time21.8 sN/A
Memory usage5.2 GB0.5 GB
Memory %71%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

Speed
26/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
15/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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