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qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
4 vs 75
Hardware Fit
13 vs 79
Quality Score
0 vs 73

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b phi4:14b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:27b phi4:14b
Tokens/sec3.511.0
First chunk1781 msN/A
TTFT52.0 s532 ms
Load time13.4 s0.7 s
Memory usage21.3 GB13.4 GB
Memory %89%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

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

phi4:14b

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

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

phi4:14b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
13/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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