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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
83 vs 81
Hardware Fit
68 vs 100
Quality Score
90 vs 73

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b llama3.1:8b
MachineMacBook ProGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M4 MaxIntel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1616
RAM128 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec27.670.2
First chunk10 ms58 ms
TTFT4.6 s58 ms
Load timeN/A4.1 s
Memory usage21.0 GB4.9 GB
Memory %16%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
32/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

llama3.1:8b

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

Quality

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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