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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

nemotron-3-nano:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
59 vs 84
Hardware Fit
63 vs 99
Quality Score
58 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx nemotron-3-nano:4b
MachineMacBook ProMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M5 MaxAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1812
RAM64 GB8 GB
GPUApple M5 MaxIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 27.0Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx nemotron-3-nano:4b
Tokens/sec18.3109.2
First chunk4 ms349 ms
TTFT530 ms349 ms
Load timeN/A7.8 s
Memory usage38.5 GB2.6 GB
Memory %60%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

nemotron-3-nano:4b

Speed
50/50
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

nemotron-3-nano:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest