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qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
75 vs 22
Hardware Fit
54 vs 50
Quality Score
84 vs 10

Hardware

qwen3.5-27b deepseek-r1:14b
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 deepseek-r1:14b
Tokens/sec6.611.4
First chunk4364 msN/A
TTFT4.4 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A1.0 s
Memory usage15.0 GB16.5 GB
Memory %47%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b

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

deepseek-r1:14b

Speed
20/50
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

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Reasoning
1/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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