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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 15, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
60 vs 85
Hardware Fit
96 vs 79
Quality Score
44 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.8:27b
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.8:27b
Tokens/sec108.027.4
First chunk2568 ms593 ms
TTFT2.6 s593 ms
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage1.0 GB18.2 GB
Memory %3%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8:27b

Speed
29/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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