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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

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
59 vs 61
Hardware Fit
63 vs 85
Quality Score
58 vs 51

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3:0.6b
MachineMacBook ProLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores188
RAM64 GB23 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 27.0Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3:0.6b
Tokens/sec18.327.0
First chunk4 ms597 ms
TTFT530 ms8.7 s
Load timeN/A1.8 s
Memory usage38.5 GB0.9 GB
Memory %60%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3:0.6b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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
14/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
12/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

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