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qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

Global Score
75 vs 50
Hardware Fit
54 vs 97
Quality Score
84 vs 30

Hardware

qwen3.5-27b gemma3:270m
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M3 Pro
Cores1012
RAM32 GB36 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M3 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-27b gemma3:270m
Tokens/sec6.6239.2
First chunk4364 ms127 ms
TTFT4.4 s127 ms
Load timeN/A0.7 s
Memory usage15.0 GB0.6 GB
Memory %47%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b

Speed
13/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

gemma3:270m

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

Quality

qwen3.5-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

gemma3:270m

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
8/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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