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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

36 vs 66

Hardware Fit

53 vs 91

Quality Score

28 vs 55

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM24 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.333.2

First chunk27 ms7 ms

TTFT20.7 s311 ms

Load time15.4 sN/A

Memory usage1.0 GB0.5 GB

Memory %4%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

3/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

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