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qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
4 vs 80
Hardware Fit
13 vs 85
Quality Score
0 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b qwen3:8b
MachineMac miniHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1080
RAM24 GB252 GB
GPUApple M4TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5:27b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec3.565.1
First chunk1781 ms289 ms
TTFT52.0 s4.2 s
Load time13.4 s4.6 s
Memory usage21.3 GB5.6 GB
Memory %89%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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