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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

Global Score
83 vs 65
Hardware Fit
68 vs 92
Quality Score
90 vs 54

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineMacBook ProiMac
CPUApple M4 MaxIntel Core™ i7-4771
Cores168
RAM128 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 15.7.3
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec27.619.6
First chunk10 ms690 ms
TTFT4.6 s690 ms
Load timeN/A21.4 s
Memory usage21.0 GB1.0 GB
Memory %16%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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