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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
59 vs 61
Hardware Fit
63 vs 100
Quality Score
58 vs 44

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3:0.6b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
Cores1810
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3:0.6b
Tokens/sec18.3144.3
First chunk4 msN/A
TTFT530 ms81 ms
Load timeN/A0.9 s
Memory usage38.5 GB4.1 GB
Memory %60%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3:0.6b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak
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