qwen3.5:27b

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

dolphin-phi:2.7b

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

75 vs 61

Hardware Fit

67 vs 100

Quality Score

79 vs 44

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b dolphin-phi:2.7b

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 dolphin-phi:2.7b

Tokens/sec4.456.1

TTFT1.1 s108 ms

Load time13.2 s0.4 s

Memory usage22.7 GB2.2 GB

Memory %71%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

Speed

7/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Speed

40/40

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

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

2/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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