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qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
66 vs 81
Hardware Fit
34 vs 100
Quality Score
79 vs 73

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b llama3.1:8b
MachineMac miniGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores1016
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:27b llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec3.870.2
First chunk1637 ms58 ms
TTFT1.6 s58 ms
Load time17.0 s4.1 s
Memory usage21.3 GB4.9 GB
Memory %89%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
8/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
6/30

llama3.1:8b

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

Quality

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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