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qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
83 vs 20
Hardware Fit
73 vs 34
Quality Score
87 vs 14

Hardware

qwen3:14b qwen3.6:27b
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1012
RAM24 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:14b qwen3.6:27b
Tokens/sec11.110.6
First chunk500 ms1344 ms
TTFT500 ms30.0 s
Load time7.3 s0.2 s
Memory usage9.4 GB18.1 GB
Memory %39%75%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:14b

Speed
25/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.6:27b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
12/30

Quality

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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