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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
78 vs 92
Hardware Fit
56 vs 86
Quality Score
87 vs 95

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx gpt-oss:20b
MachineMacBook ProNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M1 ProCortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M1 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 15.6.1Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx gpt-oss:20b
Tokens/sec10.860.7
First chunk8 ms542 ms
TTFT2.6 s3.2 s
Load timeN/A12.0 s
Memory usage21.0 GB12.0 GB
Memory %66%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

gpt-oss:20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
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

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
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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