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qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

starling-lm:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
26 vs 63
Hardware Fit
63 vs 97
Quality Score
10 vs 49

Hardware

qwen3.5-27b starling-lm:7b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-27b starling-lm:7b
Tokens/sec9.523.7
First chunk1099 msN/A
TTFT1.1 s234 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage16.3 GB5.3 GB
Memory %25%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b

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

starling-lm:7b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-27b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

starling-lm:7b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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