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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
83 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 52
Quality Score
76 vs 92

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec32.416.1
First chunk306 ms14 ms
TTFT306 ms5.8 s
Load time2.7 s8.5 s
Memory usage6.5 GB0.0 GB
Memory %20%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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