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qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 75
Hardware Fit
66 vs 54
Quality Score
92 vs 84

Hardware

qwen3.8:27b qwen3.5-27b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Air
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4
Cores2010
RAM122 GB32 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.8:27b qwen3.5-27b
Tokens/sec29.46.6
First chunk306 ms4364 ms
TTFT4.8 s4.4 s
Load time5.3 sN/A
Memory usage16.2 GB15.0 GB
Memory %13%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8:27b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-27b

Speed
13/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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