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qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
72 vs 78
Hardware Fit
92 vs 56
Quality Score
63 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Pro
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M1 Pro
Cores3210
RAM125 GB32 GB
GPUAMD Radeon 8060SApple M1 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 15.6.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec120.710.8
First chunk93 ms8 ms
TTFT1.5 s2.6 s
Load time2.5 sN/A
Memory usage5.8 GB21.0 GB
Memory %5%66%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
17/30

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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