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qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 71
Hardware Fit
66 vs 76
Quality Score
92 vs 69

Hardware

qwen3.8:27b gemma4:12b-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 gemma4:12b-mlx
Tokens/sec29.425.0
First chunk306 ms787 ms
TTFT4.8 s30.0 s
Load time5.3 s4.0 s
Memory usage16.2 GB7.1 GB
Memory %13%45%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8:27b

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
26/30

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest