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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 4B · Q4_1

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-opus-distilled-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

65 vs 34

Hardware Fit

96 vs 21

Quality Score

51 vs 39

Hardware

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MachineMac StudioMac mini

CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4

Cores1210

RAM96 GB24 GB

GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4

OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec99.66.1

First chunk18 ms7 ms

TTFT1.6 s22.9 s

Load time4.8 sN/A

Memory usage0.3 GB19.8 GB

Memory %0%82%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

16/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

12/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

9/30

Quality

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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

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Reasoning

1/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

8/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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