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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
64 vs 59
Hardware Fit
69 vs 63
Quality Score
62 vs 58

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20U30029MBMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-10210UApple M5 Max
Cores818
RAM15 GB64 GB
GPUCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]Apple M5 Max
OSPop 24.04 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec7.418.3
First chunk1815 ms4 ms
TTFT1.8 s530 ms
Load time10.9 sN/A
Memory usage3.5 GB38.5 GB
Memory %23%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
19/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
12/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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