qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus-reasoning-distilled
LM-STUDIO GGUFqwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M
Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max
starling-lm:7b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 7B · Q4_0
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
80 vs 65
Hardware Fit
63 vs 96
Quality Score
87 vs 52
Hardware
qwen3.8-27b-claude… starling-lm:7b
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… starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec24.023.8
First chunk20 ms232 ms
TTFT4.5 s232 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage15.7 GB5.3 GB
Memory %12%17%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…
Speed
27/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30
starling-lm:7b
Speed
46/50
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
starling-lm:7b
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
3/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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