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qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 84
Hardware Fit
66 vs 94
Quality Score
92 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.8:27b qwen3.5:9b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M1 Pro
Cores2010
RAM122 GB16 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M1 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.8:27b qwen3.5:9b-mlx
Tokens/sec29.425.0
First chunk306 ms357 ms
TTFT4.8 s357 ms
Load time5.3 s3.8 s
Memory usage16.2 GB8.4 GB
Memory %13%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8:27b

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

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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