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qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 72
Hardware Fit
66 vs 51
Quality Score
92 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.8:27b qwen3.5-9b
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 qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec29.414.4
First chunk306 ms4 ms
TTFT4.8 s824 ms
Load time5.3 sN/A
Memory usage16.2 GB48.3 GB
Memory %13%151%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8:27b

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
0/30

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

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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