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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
78 vs 90
Hardware Fit
56 vs 96
Quality Score
87 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1024
RAM32 GB47 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 15.6.1Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec10.8207.9
First chunk8 ms513 ms
TTFT2.6 s513 ms
Load timeN/A4.9 s
Memory usage21.0 GB20.5 GB
Memory %66%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b

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

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-coder:30b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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