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qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 15, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
85 vs 89
Hardware Fit
79 vs 97
Quality Score
87 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.8:27b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10MacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM122 GB48 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.8:27b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec27.4129.4
First chunk593 ms49 ms
TTFT593 ms49 ms
Load time0.3 s0.0 s
Memory usage18.2 GB20.5 GB
Memory %15%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8:27b

Speed
29/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest