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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K

Global Score
59 vs 80
Hardware Fit
63 vs 60
Quality Score
58 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M5 MaxIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Cores1820
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxParsec Virtual Display Adapter, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec18.314.7
First chunk4 ms796 ms
TTFT530 ms796 ms
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage38.5 GB17.9 GB
Memory %60%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
14/50
TTFT
19/20
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

qwen3-coder:30b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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