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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

mistralai/magistral-small-2509

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 74

Hardware Fit

63 vs 66

Quality Score

87 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-claude… mistralai/magistra…

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… mistralai/magistra…

Tokens/sec24.07.9

First chunk20 ms1356 ms

TTFT4.5 s1.4 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage15.7 GB13.2 GB

Memory %12%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…

Speed

27/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

16/50

TTFT

20/20

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

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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