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qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
79 vs 58
Hardware Fit
57 vs 68
Quality Score
89 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineAZW GTR ProMac mini
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060SApple M4
Cores3210
RAM125 GB24 GB
GPUIntegrated / Apple SiliconApple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:27b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec10.716.7
First chunk341 ms23 ms
TTFT341 ms14.1 s
Load time10.2 sN/A
Memory usage39.7 GB7.8 GB
Memory %32%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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