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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

google/gemma-4-e4b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 7.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 20, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Global Score
59 vs 83
Hardware Fit
63 vs 96
Quality Score
58 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx google/gemma-4-e4b
MachineMacBook ProASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Strix G16 G614PH_G614PH
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD Ryzen 9 8940HX
Cores1832
RAM64 GB15 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon(TM) 610M
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Home Single Language 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx google/gemma-4-e4b
Tokens/sec18.335.9
First chunk4 ms9 ms
TTFT530 ms182 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage38.5 GB6.5 GB
Memory %60%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

google/gemma-4-e4b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

google/gemma-4-e4b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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