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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

mistral:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 73
Hardware Fit
69 vs 96
Quality Score
90 vs 63

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.8-27b mistral:latest
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
Cores1610
RAM128 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b mistral:latest
Tokens/sec28.922.5
First chunk33 msN/A
TTFT4.4 s257 ms
Load time7.9 s0.6 s
Memory usage0.0 GB10.1 GB
Memory %0%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

mistral:latest

Speed
36/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

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

mistral:latest

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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