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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-a3b-uncensored-hauhaucs-aggressive

OPENAI GGUF
Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
59 vs 62
Hardware Fit
63 vs 100
Quality Score
58 vs 45

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
Cores1812
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec18.367.9
First chunk4 ms50 ms
TTFT530 ms75 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage38.5 GB0.0 GB
Memory %60%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-uncenso…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-uncenso…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
0/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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