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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Qwen3-30B:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor

Global Score
59 vs 88
Hardware Fit
63 vs 91
Quality Score
58 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx Qwen3-30B:30b
MachineMacBook ProHP HyperX OMEN Gaming Laptop 16-ap1xxx
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor
Cores1832
RAM64 GB31 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxAMD Radeon(TM) 610M, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx Qwen3-30B:30b
Tokens/sec18.342.5
First chunk4 ms442 ms
TTFT530 ms442 ms
Load timeN/A21.7 s
Memory usage38.5 GB17.9 GB
Memory %60%58%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

Qwen3-30B:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

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

Qwen3-30B:30b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest