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qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
4 vs 62
Hardware Fit
13 vs 35
Quality Score
0 vs 73

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:27b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec3.50.0
First chunk1781 ms5548 ms
TTFT52.0 s5.5 s
Load time13.4 sN/A
Memory usage21.3 GB2.9 GB
Memory %89%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
7/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
6/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
0/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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