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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

Jun 18, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Global Score
59 vs 82
Hardware Fit
63 vs 71
Quality Score
58 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook ProHP HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eh1xxx
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Cores1812
RAM64 GB63 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxAMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 10.0.19044
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec18.314.3
First chunk4 ms869 ms
TTFT530 ms869 ms
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage38.5 GB20.5 GB
Memory %60%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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
16/20
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: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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