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qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

phi:2.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
75 vs 59
Hardware Fit
54 vs 100
Quality Score
84 vs 41

Hardware

qwen3.5-27b 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 phi:2.7b
Tokens/sec6.656.6
First chunk4364 msN/A
TTFT4.4 s110 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage15.0 GB2.2 GB
Memory %47%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b

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

phi:2.7b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

phi:2.7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
11/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Poor
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