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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3next · 79.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 18, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
59 vs 78
Hardware Fit
63 vs 51
Quality Score
58 vs 89

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3-next:80b-a3b…
MachineMacBook ProDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1816
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3-next:80b-a3b…
Tokens/sec18.38.7
First chunk4 ms1251 ms
TTFT530 ms1.3 s
Load timeN/A61.6 s
Memory usage38.5 GB48.3 GB
Memory %60%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30

qwen3-next:80b-a3b-inst…

Speed
9/50
TTFT
17/20
Memory
25/30

Quality

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

qwen3-next:80b-a3b-inst…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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