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qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

lmstudio-community/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
84 vs 78
Hardware Fit
69 vs 100
Quality Score
90 vs 69

Hardware

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MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1614
RAM128 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.8-27b lmstudio-community…
Tokens/sec28.946.0
First chunk33 ms245 ms
TTFT4.4 s245 ms
Load time7.9 sN/A
Memory usage0.0 GB4.6 GB
Memory %0%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

lmstudio-community/meta…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

lmstudio-community/meta…

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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