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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

80 vs 64

Hardware Fit

63 vs 100

Quality Score

87 vs 48

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-claude… microsoft/phi-4-mi…

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… microsoft/phi-4-mi…

Tokens/sec24.090.3

First chunk20 ms198 ms

TTFT4.5 s198 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage15.7 GB2.0 GB

Memory %12%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…

Speed

27/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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