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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

llama3.2:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS

Global Score
59 vs 62
Hardware Fit
63 vs 91
Quality Score
58 vs 50

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx llama3.2:1b
MachineMacBook ProASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Zephyrus G14 GA403UV_GA403UV
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
Cores1816
RAM64 GB15 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU, AMD Radeon 780M Graphics
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx llama3.2:1b
Tokens/sec18.3170.2
First chunk4 ms142 ms
TTFT530 ms142 ms
Load timeN/A3.2 s
Memory usage38.5 GB1.6 GB
Memory %60%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

llama3.2:1b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

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

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest