Back to leaderboard

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

GPT-120B:120b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 116.8B · MXFP4

Good

Aug 18, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-14700F

Global Score
59 vs 79
Hardware Fit
63 vs 47
Quality Score
58 vs 93

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx GPT-120B:120b
MachineMacBook ProHP OMEN 35L VALORANT Limited Edition Gaming Desktop PC
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Core™ i7-14700F
Cores1828
RAM64 GB128 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx GPT-120B:120b
Tokens/sec18.318.2
First chunk4 ms1719 ms
TTFT530 ms3.9 s
Load timeN/A50.9 s
Memory usage38.5 GB61.5 GB
Memory %60%48%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

GPT-120B:120b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
5/20
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

GPT-120B:120b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest