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qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
59 vs 26
Hardware Fit
69 vs 63
Quality Score
54 vs 10

Hardware

qwen3.5:35b-a3b qwen3.5-27b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1414
RAM48 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3.1macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:35b-a3b qwen3.5-27b
Tokens/sec30.59.5
First chunk333 ms1099 ms
TTFT30.0 s1.1 s
Load time9.8 sN/A
Memory usage25.1 GB16.3 GB
Memory %52%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

qwen3.5-27b

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

Quality

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-27b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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