qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus-reasoning-distilled
LM-STUDIO GGUFqwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M
Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit
Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max
Global Score
80 vs 59
Hardware Fit
63 vs 63
Quality Score
87 vs 58
Hardware
qwen3.8-27b-claude… qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M5 Max
Cores1618
RAM128 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3.8-27b-claude… qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec24.018.3
First chunk20 ms4 ms
TTFT4.5 s530 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage15.7 GB38.5 GB
Memory %12%60%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…
Speed
27/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30
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
qwen3.8-27b-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
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