qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

orca-mini:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

26 vs 55

Hardware Fit

63 vs 98

Quality Score

10 vs 37

Hardware

qwen3.5-27b orca-mini: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 orca-mini:7b

Tokens/sec9.524.4

First chunk1099 msN/A

TTFT1.1 s219 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage16.3 GB5.8 GB

Memory %25%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b

Speed

13/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

orca-mini:7b

Speed

38/50

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

orca-mini:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

10/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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