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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
78 vs 97
Hardware Fit
56 vs 95
Quality Score
87 vs 98

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac Studio
CPUApple M1 ProApple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.879.6
First chunk8 ms11 ms
TTFT2.6 s1.7 s
Load timeN/A7.1 s
Memory usage21.0 GB0.0 GB
Memory %66%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
17/30

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest