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qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 15, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
85 vs 66
Hardware Fit
79 vs 91
Quality Score
87 vs 55

Hardware

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MachineASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10MacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM122 GB64 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec27.433.2
First chunk593 ms7 ms
TTFT593 ms311 ms
Load time0.3 sN/A
Memory usage18.2 GB0.5 GB
Memory %15%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8:27b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest