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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

deepseek-coder-v2:16b

OLLAMA GGUF

deepseek2 · 15.7B · Q4_0

Excellent

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
59 vs 82
Hardware Fit
63 vs 100
Quality Score
58 vs 74

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx deepseek-coder-v2:…
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M5 MaxCortex-X925
Cores1820
RAM64 GB122 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx deepseek-coder-v2:…
Tokens/sec18.3117.2
First chunk4 ms275 ms
TTFT530 ms275 ms
Load timeN/A8.9 s
Memory usage38.5 GB17.9 GB
Memory %60%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

deepseek-coder-v2:16b

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

deepseek-coder-v2:16b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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