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qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

nemotron-3-nano:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
78 vs 95
Hardware Fit
56 vs 99
Quality Score
87 vs 93

Hardware

qwen3.8-27b-mlx nemotron-3-nano:4b
MachineMacBook ProMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M1 ProAMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB8 GB
GPUApple M1 ProIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 15.6.1Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.8-27b-mlx nemotron-3-nano:4b
Tokens/sec10.8107.6
First chunk8 ms361 ms
TTFT2.6 s1.1 s
Load timeN/A7.9 s
Memory usage21.0 GB2.6 GB
Memory %66%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

nemotron-3-nano:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

nemotron-3-nano:4b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
18/20
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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