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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3.5:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
59 vs 87
Hardware Fit
63 vs 86
Quality Score
58 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3.5:35b
MachineMacBook ProGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1816
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3.5:35b
Tokens/sec18.345.7
First chunk4 ms393 ms
TTFT530 ms393 ms
Load timeN/A22.9 s
Memory usage38.5 GB21.6 GB
Memory %60%68%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:35b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
16/30

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

qwen3.5:35b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
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