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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distill-IQ3_XXS:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · IQ3_XXS

Good

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
59 vs 73
Hardware Fit
63 vs 98
Quality Score
58 vs 62

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-D…
MachineMacBook ProMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Cores1816
RAM64 GB31 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 27.0Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-D…
Tokens/sec18.361.4
First chunk4 ms381 ms
TTFT530 ms381 ms
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage38.5 GB12.2 GB
Memory %60%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distil…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distil…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
0/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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