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OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
22 vs 66
Hardware Fit
50 vs 91
Quality Score
10 vs 55

Hardware

deepseek-r1:14b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec11.433.2
First chunkN/A7 ms
TTFT30.0 s311 ms
Load time1.0 sN/A
Memory usage16.5 GB0.5 GB
Memory %52%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
20/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

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Reasoning
1/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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