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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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 77
Hardware Fit
63 vs 67
Quality Score
87 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-claude… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1614
RAM128 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-claude… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec24.020.3
First chunk20 ms4216 ms
TTFT4.5 s4.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage15.7 GB5.6 GB
Memory %12%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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