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qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 4B · Q4_1

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
65 vs 80
Hardware Fit
96 vs 52
Quality Score
51 vs 92

Hardware

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMac StudioMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Max
Cores1216
RAM96 GB128 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec99.616.1
First chunk18 ms14 ms
TTFT1.6 s5.8 s
Load time4.8 s8.5 s
Memory usage0.3 GB0.0 GB
Memory %0%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

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

Quality

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate 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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