qwen3.5-27b
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit
Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4
Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max
Global Score
75 vs 97
Hardware Fit
54 vs 95
Quality Score
84 vs 98
Hardware
qwen3.5-27b qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
MachineMacBook AirMac Studio
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3.5-27b qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
Tokens/sec6.679.6
First chunk4364 ms11 ms
TTFT4.4 s1.7 s
Load timeN/A7.1 s
Memory usage15.0 GB0.0 GB
Memory %47%0%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-27b
Speed
13/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
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
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
20/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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