qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

26 vs 64

Hardware Fit

63 vs 100

Quality Score

10 vs 48

Hardware

qwen3.5-27b microsoft/phi-4-mi…

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

Cores1414

RAM64 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-27b microsoft/phi-4-mi…

Tokens/sec9.590.3

First chunk1099 ms198 ms

TTFT1.1 s198 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage16.3 GB2.0 GB

Memory %25%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b

Speed

13/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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