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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

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
79 vs 47
Hardware Fit
57 vs 67
Quality Score
89 vs 38

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b qwen3:8b
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Air
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060SApple M4
Cores3210
RAM125 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / Apple SiliconApple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:27b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec10.718.7
First chunk341 msN/A
TTFT341 ms12.1 s
Load time10.2 s1.2 s
Memory usage39.7 GB9.5 GB
Memory %32%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest