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qwen3.5:27b

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
75 vs 47
Hardware Fit
67 vs 67
Quality Score
79 vs 38

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b qwen3:8b
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 qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec4.418.7
TTFT1.1 s12.1 s
Load time13.2 s1.2 s
Memory usage22.7 GB9.5 GB
Memory %71%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
7/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/40
TTFT
6/30
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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