Back to leaderboard

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

gemma4:e2b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 4.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
59 vs 93
Hardware Fit
63 vs 100
Quality Score
58 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx gemma4:e2b
MachineMacBook ProMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1812
RAM64 GB8 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx gemma4:e2b
Tokens/sec18.3141.2
First chunk4 ms94 ms
TTFT530 ms1.6 s
Load timeN/A18.4 s
Memory usage38.5 GB0.2 GB
Memory %60%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

gemma4:e2b

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

gemma4:e2b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest