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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
83 vs 77
Hardware Fit
68 vs 59
Quality Score
90 vs 84

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b gemma4:12b
MachineMacBook ProASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1620
RAM128 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b gemma4:12b
Tokens/sec27.626.8
First chunk10 ms632 ms
TTFT4.6 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A5.4 s
Memory usage21.0 GB9.3 GB
Memory %16%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

gemma4:12b

Speed
29/50
TTFT
0/20
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

gemma4:12b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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