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qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 30, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
75 vs 49
Hardware Fit
54 vs 54
Quality Score
84 vs 47

Hardware

qwen3.5-27b qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1016
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec6.621.6
First chunk4364 ms1505 ms
TTFT4.4 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A53.8 s
Memory usage15.0 GB22.7 GB
Memory %47%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
24/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
5/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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