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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

unsloth-phi-4

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
59 vs 82
Hardware Fit
63 vs 88
Quality Score
58 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx unsloth-phi-4
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1814
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 27.0macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx unsloth-phi-4
Tokens/sec18.327.4
First chunk4 ms457 ms
TTFT530 ms457 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage38.5 GB7.7 GB
Memory %60%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

unsloth-phi-4

Speed
38/50
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

unsloth-phi-4

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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