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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

Global Score
84 vs 77
Hardware Fit
69 vs 75
Quality Score
90 vs 78

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M4 MaxIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K
Cores1624
RAM128 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec28.930.5
First chunk33 ms291 ms
TTFT4.4 s291 ms
Load time7.9 s4.8 s
Memory usage0.0 GB8.8 GB
Memory %0%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
33/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
34/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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