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qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

granite3.1-dense:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
80 vs 74
Hardware Fit
63 vs 91
Quality Score
87 vs 66

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-claude… granite3.1-dense:8b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
Cores1610
RAM128 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-claude… granite3.1-dense:8b
Tokens/sec24.018.8
First chunk20 msN/A
TTFT4.5 s308 ms
Load timeN/A0.6 s
Memory usage15.7 GB13.0 GB
Memory %12%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…

Speed
27/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

granite3.1-dense:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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