qwen3.5:27b

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

granite3.1-dense:8b

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

75 vs 74

Hardware Fit

67 vs 91

Quality Score

79 vs 66

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b granite3.1-dense:8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:27b granite3.1-dense:8b

Tokens/sec4.418.8

TTFT1.1 s308 ms

Load time13.2 s0.6 s

Memory usage22.7 GB13.0 GB

Memory %71%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

Speed

7/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

granite3.1-dense:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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