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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
83 vs 79
Hardware Fit
68 vs 98
Quality Score
90 vs 71

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b ministral-3:8b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1612
RAM128 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec27.641.4
First chunk10 ms257 ms
TTFT4.6 s257 ms
Load timeN/A5.2 s
Memory usage21.0 GB9.0 GB
Memory %16%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

ministral-3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest