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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen2.5-coder:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
78 vs 73
Hardware Fit
56 vs 100
Quality Score
87 vs 61

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:3b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M1 ProCortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M1 ProIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 15.6.1Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:3b
Tokens/sec10.821.3
First chunk8 ms969 ms
TTFT2.6 s969 ms
Load timeN/A6.6 s
Memory usage21.0 GB2.0 GB
Memory %66%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen2.5-coder:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen2.5-coder:3b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak 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