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qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
26 vs 71
Hardware Fit
63 vs 88
Quality Score
10 vs 63

Hardware

qwen3.5-27b qwen3.5-4b-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 qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec9.523.1
First chunk1099 ms3279 ms
TTFT1.1 s3.3 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage16.3 GB2.9 GB
Memory %25%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
45/50
TTFT
13/20
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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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