qwen3.5-27b
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit
Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4
granite3.1-dense:2b
OLLAMA GGUFgranite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
75 vs 68
Hardware Fit
54 vs 100
Quality Score
84 vs 54
Hardware
qwen3.5-27b granite3.1-dense:2b
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 granite3.1-dense:2b
Tokens/sec6.654.6
First chunk4364 msN/A
TTFT4.4 s121 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage15.0 GB5.6 GB
Memory %47%18%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-27b
Speed
13/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30
granite3.1-dense:2b
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
granite3.1-dense:2b
Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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