qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

GPT-120B:120b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 116.8B · MXFP4

Not Rec.

Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Global Score

84 vs 66

Hardware Fit

69 vs 23

Quality Score

90 vs 84

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b GPT-120B:120b

MachineMacBook ProHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXML

CPUApple M4 MaxNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Cores1620

RAM128 GB55 GB

GPUApple M4 MaxNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPU

OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b GPT-120B:120b

Tokens/sec28.916.8

First chunk33 ms11247 ms

TTFT4.4 s12.2 s

Load time7.9 s77.3 s

Memory usage0.0 GB61.6 GB

Memory %0%113%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed

33/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

GPT-120B:120b

Speed

21/50

TTFT

2/20

Memory

0/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

GPT-120B:120b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

13/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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