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qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
26 vs 60
Hardware Fit
63 vs 96
Quality Score
10 vs 44

Hardware

qwen3.5-27b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
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 qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec9.5108.0
First chunk1099 ms2568 ms
TTFT1.1 s2.6 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage16.3 GB1.0 GB
Memory %25%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b

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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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