mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit
Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max
Global Score
50 vs 81
Hardware Fit
100 vs 68
Quality Score
29 vs 87
Hardware
mlx-community/stab… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
mlx-community/stab… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec93.616.4
First chunk166 ms5 ms
TTFT166 ms742 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.7 GB38.5 GB
Memory %2%30%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/stablelm-…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Speed
18/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
mlx-community/stablelm-…
Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
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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