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qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
58 vs 66
Hardware Fit
82 vs 34
Quality Score
48 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3:14b qwen3.5:27b
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:14b qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec24.44.0
First chunk294 ms1655 ms
TTFT7.9 s1.7 s
Load time3.7 s12.9 s
Memory usage13.8 GB21.3 GB
Memory %43%89%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:14b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:27b

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

Quality

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
9/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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