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qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 65
Hardware Fit
66 vs 99
Quality Score
92 vs 51

Hardware

qwen3.8:27b smollm2-1.7b-instr…
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

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Tokens/sec29.428.5
First chunk306 ms393 ms
TTFT4.8 s393 ms
Load time5.3 sN/A
Memory usage16.2 GB3.2 GB
Memory %13%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8:27b

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

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

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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