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OLLAMA GGUF
Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
43 vs 75
Hardware Fit
100 vs 54
Quality Score
19 vs 84

Hardware

tinyllama qwen3.5-27b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

tinyllama qwen3.5-27b
Tokens/sec133.46.6
First chunk61 ms4364 ms
TTFT61 ms4.4 s
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage0.2 GB15.0 GB
Memory %1%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

tinyllama

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

qwen3.5-27b

Speed
13/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

tinyllama

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
5/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

qwen3.5-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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