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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 4.4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

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

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
Tokens/sec18.391.2
First chunk4 ms150 ms
TTFT530 ms150 ms
Load timeN/A5.3 s
Memory usage38.5 GB42.5 GB
Memory %60%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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-vl:4b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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